This document discusses the history of Buddhism in India. It covers the early history of Buddhism beginning with Buddha's life and teachings in India. After Buddha's death, his disciples established the first Buddhist councils and organized the religion. However, Buddhism eventually declined in India due to invasions and persecution between the 12th-13th centuries. Today, Buddhism is seeing a revival in India with over 1 million followers, and some Dalits are converting from Hinduism to Buddhism to escape the caste system.

1. Buddhism in India
International Bachelor of art , 3rd year, Second Semester , Academic year 2013
Mahachularlongkorn University , Wang Noi, Ayutthaya, Thailand
Vamsapala
ID:5301201125
Subject- Buddhism in contemporary world
Lecturer- Dr. Doungkamon Tongkanaraksa

2. Contents
• I n t r o d u c t i o n
• 1. I n d i a n a n H i s t o r y
• 1.1.E a r l y h i s t o r y o f B u d d h i s m
• 1.2.A f t e r t h e B u d d h a
• 1.3. T h e d e c l i n e o f B u d d h i s m i n
I n d i a
• 2. M o d e r n B u d d h i s m i n I n d i a
• 2.1.P o p u l a t i o n o f B u d d h i s t s
• 2.2. R e l i g i o n s i n I n d i a
• 2.3.C o n t e m p o r a r y o f B u d d h i s m
• 2.4. C o v e r t t o B u d d h i s m
• C o n c l u s i o n
• R e f e r e n c e

3. Introduction
• Indian is the full of richest
religions and culture country
in the world. To day I want to
introduce about Indian
Buddhism regarding with past
and present and give some
explanation compare with
other religions how is going
on India religion nowadays
and why Hindu people convert
to Buddhism more and more

4. 1. I n d i a n a n
H i s t o r y
• The history of India begins with evidence of
human activity . There was saying as long as
75,000 years ago.
• .

5. 1.1. Early history of Buddhism
• There are two parts we can divided-
• (A) -History of Buddhism must begin with the life
of the historical Buddha ( 483 BCE), who lived and
taught in Nepal and India 25.
• (B)- The next chapter of Buddhist history begins
with the Buddha's disciples. The Buddha had
many lay followers who made history.

6. 1.2. After the Buddha
• After Buddha passed way , the followed
established first to six councils and the first
three councils organized in India.
• Two Nikayas
• Sthaviravada
• Mahasanghika
• During 3rd century BC, King Asoka began to
propagate Buddhism around the Asia.

10. 1.3. The decline of Buddhism in
India
• Why Buddhism disappeared in India ..?
• D
1. Declined by
Muhammad Bin Bakhtiar
Khilji.
2. Thousands of Buddhist
monks were massacred in
12th century C.E.
Nalanda built in the 4th
century BC

11. • (History of Magadha” by L.L.S. Omalley; J.F.W. James (Veena
Publication, Delhi, 2005, pp. 35)

12. 2. Modern Buddhism in India
• The Buddhist revival began in India in 1891,
when the Sri Lankan Buddhist leader
Anagarika Dharmapala founded the Maha
Bodhi Society.

15. 2.1.Poplation of Buddhists
• Current population -1.22 billion, 2012.
• Between 400 Million to 1.5 Billion Buddhists.
Buddhism become the 4th largest religion in
2013 but majority of Buddhist are still poor.
• Buddhist population so increasing day by day

17. Religions
population
Hindus In 2011
Muslims
Christians
Sikhs
Buddhists
/ 1.5%
2012
Jains
Zoroastrians
Judaism
Others
2.2. Religion in India

18. Continues --

19. 2.3.Contemporary of Buddhism in
India
Nowadays , a lot of Buddhist temples in India , established
by Thai, Myanmar, and China.
1. More opportunity for Dalit peoples
2.Buddhism never divided classical people
3. The two religions have close connections

20. C o v e r t t o
B u d d h i s m
Udupi (AsiaNews) – In a
state ceremony (Dhamma
Dheekshe) at least 2
thousand Dalits converted
to Buddhism in
Karnataka, on May 24 last.
The "Dhamma Dheekshe"
was part of celebrations
for "Vesak" the 2,600th
anniversary of Buddha's
enlightenment.

21. People take vows during a mass conversion to Buddhism in
Ahmadabad, India, Sunday, Jan. 24, 2010. About 6000
people.
continues-

22. Conclusion
• Generally, history of Buddhism is apart of
history of India. About 1.5 millions people lay
down on Buddhism in Indian world today even
so had been declined by Islam . It is great
discover of Indian Buddhism under the
famous Buddhist leadership persons.

23. Reference
• http://buddhism.about.com/od/buddhisthisto
ry/a/earlyhistory.htm
• http://folks.co.in/blog/2009/12/19/reasons-
for-decline-of-buddhism-in-india/
• www.wikipidia.com