Comments by "K `" (@user-jt3dw6vv4x) on "ReligionForBreakfast" channel.

  1. That's because they all became Muslims. So they forgot about their pre-Islamic heritage.
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  2.  @niket527  No, he's right and I say this as an Asian Buddhist.
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  3. Where did you think it came from then?
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  4.  @TingTong2568  How did you check him? What did you say?
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  5. That's what happens in Australia. Federation Square in the Melbourne CBD becomes host for the Buddha's Birthday and Multicultural Festival. It's basically a huge Buddhist and pan-Asian festival that attracts Buddhists and non-Buddhists. Your Zen Centre seems to have been more of just a centre rather than anything else. You should visit a Buddhist temple or a monastery, doesn't matter if East Asian or South/Southeast Asian as you will see all types of people there celebrating Vesak.
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  6.  @Meowie765  I don't know what you're talking about but considering this video is about Buddhism, I am talking about Buddhist-majority countries. My entire comment is about Buddhist Asia, not Hindu-majority Nepal.
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  7.  @paolamaria1992  Why do Christians constantly belittle other beliefs? This video is about Buddhism but this Christian woman is here arguing and saying her religion is the best.
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  8.  @paolamaria1992  Is there ever a second where these people don't force their beliefs onto other people??????
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  9.  @paolamaria1992  and the majority of Africa is Christian-majority and yet they are among the poorest nations in the world. Your logic makes no sense. Christianity had no role to play in industrialisation. Just accept this fact instead of arguing with me. Well your personal opinions do affect your opinions as can be seen by the statements that you're making.
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  10.  @battlerushiromiya651  Buddhist culture isn't responsible for ethnic nationalism among the majority ethnic groups in Sri Lanka and Myanmar. If it's Buddhist culture, why don't we see this nationalism in Taiwan, Cambodia, Singapore, Laos, among the Buddhist minorities in Nepal, Bangladesh, Indonesia or Malaysia?
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  11.  @daksh6388  The Hindu influences in Thailand, Cambodia etc. is because Hinduism was practiced in these regions before the arrival of Early Buddhism from India and later Theravada Buddhism from Sri Lanka. The Hindu elements did not come with Buddhism, they were already there and like elsewhere in Asia, Buddhism is syncretised with other beliefs so people blend Buddhism with Hindu and Tai folk religious practiced in Thailand.
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  12.  @VeganSanatani  We don't call ourselves "Sanatanis", I've never even heard of that term as a Buddhist.
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  13.  @Gauravondrugs  I'm a Buddhist, don't worry about them. Nothing that they have said is right. I'm shocked as to why they're saying all these things even though they don't follow the Buddha's teachings.
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  14.  @VeganSanatani  Tantra has existed long before Buddhism emerged. Tibetan Buddhism absorbed Tantric practices from Tantra-influenced Buddhism in India. Tantric worshipping didn't originate in Buddhism. Vajrayana schools absorbed Tantric practices. Please be serious for a second.
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  15. Well to be fair, the emphasis on visiting a religious institution is not stressed in Eastern religions like Buddhism. So people don't visit Buddhist temples on a weekly basis like a Christian would visit a church every Sunday or a Muslim would visit a mosque every Friday because visiting a Buddhist temple is not the root of the Buddha's teachings. In fact, the Buddha never intended to create a religion. What emerged after his death is the syncretism and spiritualism that existed in Asian societies at the time that eventually developed into rituals and traditions that now form a big part of "cultural Buddhism".
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  16. That's nice to hear, yeah those are very large floating lanterns. People also float small lotus lanterns on the water.
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  17.  @gentleboyier4518  Ok
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  18.  @faithlesshound5621  Everything you said applies to Abrahamic religions as they're organised religions.
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  19. Indo-European is just a language family The ancient Indo-European civilisations did not persist after they mixed with the various groups already extant in Europe and Central and South Asia.
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  20.  @itsoblivion8124  Yes he did, the Buddha never claimed to be a representative of a god. Using tantric texts to back up your claims isn't suitable here because Tantric Buddhism is diverged from the early schools of Buddhism that developed from the teachings of the Buddha.
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  21. ​ @tiagocarioca  You're correct, the Buddha rejected the idea that he was an Avatar of any god. The other user is quoting passages from tantric texts, which is different to what the Buddha taught.
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  22. That's how I understand it, the concept of the Avatar in ATLA is a combination of Vishnu Avatar concept and the Dalai Lama.
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  23. Vaisakhi has nothing to do with Vesak actually. It's completely unrelated and they're not celebrated on the same day. They just both have similar names because they're both named after the Indian lunar month of Vaisakha. Vesak as practiced in India is not called Vesak, it's called Buddha Jayanti, while the festival in various other parts of South and Southeast Asia like Sri Lanka, Thailand and Indonesia are named after the second lunar month of Vaisakha on the Buddhist calendar.
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  24. The Earth Kingdom has influences largely from China but also South and Southeast Asia (India, Vietnam) and Korea. The dominant Fire Nation influences are from Thailand, not Japan and there are influences from other Asian cultures like China, India and Japan. All of the nations in ATLA are a combination of elements from real world cultures.
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  25.  @MisterCynic18  The only East Asian cultures represented at a large scale in the series are Chinese, Japanese and Tibetan. The bulk of the other cultural elements come from the Indian, Thai (yes, that's the dominant influence for the Fire Nation) and Inuit cultures with other elements from other cultures also present at various points in the series like Korean and Nepalese.
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  26.  @SerCrispinCole  I'm a Buddhist, Buddhism isn't a branch of Hinduism. The only reason why Buddhism even exists is because the Buddha rejected the Vedas as he didn't see it fulfilling his life as a member of the Kshatriya caste.
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  27.  @SerCrispinCole  So idk why you're saying "outsiders", because not a single Buddhist considers Buddhism a branch of Hinduism. I only ever see Indian Hindu males say this, never see Nepalese Hindus or Balinese Hindus say this.
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  28.  @perorenchino2036  Can you please elaborate?
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  29.  @SrValeriolete  He never intended on creating a religion. You're looking at this from a Western lens instead of an Asian one. In ancient India, there was no concept of organised religion, it was simply a set of practices that were deeply imbedded in the general way of life of the people. So no, the Buddha didn't create a religion. He never said he has the truth and his truth is the only truth. There is no such thing as "never before heard Dharma". Dharma does not mean religion, it can't even be translated.
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  30.  @keshavraman7739  They're related. Do you not understand that?
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  31.  @vikramaditya6812  Yes this is why syncretism exists among all Eastern religions, people blending Hindu and Buddhist practices or blending Shinto and Buddhist practices or blending Taoist and Buddhist practices and so on.
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  32.  @nonameronin1  It has nothing to do with "Western-style modernisation movements". The dominant school of Buddhism in Taiwan is Humanistic Buddhism and is quite influential in the country. The rise of Humanistic Buddhism in Taiwan is not connected to the Western world but due to the fact that the majority of Taiwanese are ethnically Chinese. Humanistic Buddhism emerged from Chinese Buddhism. It's a sub-school of Chinese Buddhism.
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  33.  @nonameronin1  Yes but it is not directly related to Western-style modernisation movements which is what I'm saying. You're saying it is but that's not the case. Humanistic Buddhism emphasises the living which is the opposite to the East Asian emphasis on the Buddhist beliefs focused on the dead.
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  34.  @nonameronin1  Okay thank you for sharing your experience but I guess what I'm trying to say is that the emergence of Humanistic Buddhism as a powerful force in Taiwan started with Yin Shun, a Buddhist monk, who undertook heavy research into Buddhism and established the principles that exist in Humanistic Buddhism by focusing on the "human realm" of Buddhist cosmology rather than the realm of the deceased. I know this may not have been your intention but your initial comment made it seem like Asians were unable to understand Buddhist philosophy and humanistic values without the help of Westerners or Western thinking, which is not true. The very basic teachings of the Buddha (The Five Precepts) is that of a philosophy and not a religion and at a basic level is devoid of the cosmology that surrounds Buddhism and other Eastern religions like Hinduism, which Buddhism absorbed many cosmological and mythological elements from.
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  35. What??
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  36. You're just thinking about aesthetics of the Air Nomads. The very concept of the Avatar in ATLA comes from Hinduism.
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  37. What a crazy thing to say but not surprised that the thing that said it is a raging weeb.
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  38. Hinduism is one of those elements.
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  39. The entire concept of the Avatar is based on incarnations, without incarnating the Avatar wouldn't exist. Avatars are incarnations of a god. So I wouldn't call incarnation a "European concept", it's a concept that exists in so many different religions.
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  40.  @uncleelias  Buddhism isn't actually a missionary belief system. The only missionary work that ever occurred was under the rule of Ashoka of the Mauryan Empire who felt compelled to spread the teaching of Buddhism after being overwhelmed by the massacre he inflicted on the Kalinga kingdom. This is why Buddhism only ever took hold in Asia, the furthest west it ever went was Central Asia and each region it was syncretised with local beliefs.
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  41.  @MustAfaalik  Not to be conflated with the missionaries that people are used to in the West, very different. The term "missionary" should not be used.
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  42. No it's not true
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  43. It's just cultural. Shinto and Buddhist practices are deeply embedded in Japanese culture so engaging in those practices is just an extension of Japanese culture.
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  44. Buddhism, Hinduism and other Eastern religions are deeply intertwined. The prevalence of Hindu-derived deity worship in various parts of Buddhist Asia is because of the Hindu influence. Phra Phrom (Thai depiction of Brahma) as featured in the video at 10:52 cannot be tied to Buddhism but more broadly to the general Dharmic/Indic culture that exists in Thailand. Thai people also popularly worship Ganesha, a deity that does not exist in Buddhist cosmology and Thai people also visit Hindu temples in Thailand. Some of the largest Ganesha statues outside of India are located in Thailand. Phra Phrom in Thai-style is also worshipped by ethnic Chinese across Southeast Asia and southern China. In Hong Kong, there is a famous Phra Phrom statue that is frequented by Chinese people. In Japan, there are Japanese versions of Ganesha, Shiva and Skanda and in Sri Lanka, you will find Buddhist people worshipping local folk gods as well as Hindu gods inside some Buddhist temples like Seema Malaka. The same thing applies to other Buddhist groups in Asia. So correlating it to Buddhism is incorrect because some of these devas don't even exist in Buddhism. The reason people worship them in Asia is because of the pre-existing Hindu influence and the general overlap that Eastern religions share with one another. Thailand was previously a Hindu nation, these Hindu practices were simply carried over after Theravada Buddhism was brought to the country from Sri Lanka. There is no restriction to how people must practice Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, Shintoism etc. so people mix them together.
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  45.  @Carlos-bz5oo  You didn't understand the video
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  46. Buddhism, Hinduism and other Eastern religions are deeply intertwined. The prevalence of Hindu-derived deity worship in various parts of Buddhist Asia is because of the Hindu influence. Phra Phrom (Thai depiction of Brahma) as featured in the video at 10:52 cannot be tied to Buddhism but more broadly to the general Dharmic/Indic culture that exists in Thailand. Thai people also popularly worship Ganesha, a deity that does not exist in Buddhist cosmology and Thai people also visit Hindu temples in Thailand. Some of the largest Ganesha statues outside of India are located in Thailand. Phra Phrom in Thai-style is also worshipped by ethnic Chinese across Southeast Asia and southern China. In Hong Kong, there is a famous Phra Phrom statue that is frequented by Chinese people. In Japan, there are Japanese versions of Ganesha, Shiva and Skanda and in Sri Lanka, you will find Buddhist people worshipping local folk gods as well as Hindu gods inside some Buddhist temples like Seema Malaka. The same thing applies to other Buddhist groups in Asia. So correlating it to Buddhism is incorrect because some of these devas don't even exist in Buddhism. The reason people worship them in Asia is because of the pre-existing Hindu influence and the general overlap that Eastern religions share with one another. Thailand was previously a Hindu nation, these Hindu practices were simply carried over after Theravada Buddhism was brought to the country from Sri Lanka. There is no restriction to how people must practice Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, Shintoism etc. so people mix them together.
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  47. ​ @TingTong2568  Checked him how?
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  48.  @thelayoffm965  Do you think everybody online is an Indian? I don't know anything about what you have mentioned nor does it have any connection to what I am talking about. Stick to the topic and stop making everything about India!
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  49.  @Meowie765  Are you Asian? Cause if you are, you'd know that Buddhism is deeply intertwined with Hinduism because Hinduism was the religion that was practiced by many Asian cultures before the emergence of Buddhism. After Buddhism became the dominant faith, people blended Hindu god worship with Buddhist practices. So people identify as Buddhists but sometimes they worship a Hindu god because it's just part of the culture.
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  50.  @udaikumar1782  How is this funny Kumar?
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