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Will Tuladhar-Douglas<p>The Hindu nationalist government in India is happy to use Buddhists and Buddhist pilgrimage as a diplomatic tool internationally, but they will not allow Buddhists to control their own holiest site.</p><p><a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2025/3/24/buddhisms-holiest-site-erupts-in-protests-over-hindu-control-of-shrine" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">aljazeera.com/features/2025/3/</span><span class="invisible">24/buddhisms-holiest-site-erupts-in-protests-over-hindu-control-of-shrine</span></a></p><p>There is a long history behind this - for anyone who is interested, I would suggest reading Verardi's _The Gods and the Heretics_. Raj and Indian textbooks blame the destruction of Buddhist monasteries in South Asia on Muslims, but the archaeological evidence suggests it was Shaiva and Vaishnava orders.</p><p> <a href="https://todon.nl/tags/Buddhism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Buddhism</span></a> <a href="https://todon.nl/tags/BodhGaya" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BodhGaya</span></a></p>
Buddhistdoor Global (BDG)<p>BDG news: Buddhist Monks Continue Hunger Strike, Seeking Full Control Over Mahabodhi Temple</p><p>🔗 Read here: <a href="https://tinyurl.com/5b8898du" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">tinyurl.com/5b8898du</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Buddhism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Buddhism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BodhGaya" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BodhGaya</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Bihar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bihar</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Protest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Protest</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BuddhistHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BuddhistHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Hinduism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hinduism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SocialEquity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SocialEquity</span></a></p>