How Bengal became Muslim (Part 1: The Buddhist Bengal)

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It was the year 1203. The Turk general Bakhtiyar Khilji had reached the gates of Nudiya, the capital city of the Hindu Sena Dynasty. Khilji had already burnt and destroyed several of the ancient Buddhist monasteries in the Magadh region, including the famous Nalanda University, Odantapuri University and Vikramshila University.
After burning these great Buddhist centres of learning, the Turkish General moved towards the heartland of Bengal. At that time Bengal was ruled by a weak and old King, named Lakshmana Sena of the Sena dynasty. The king was in his nineties. Khilji and his cavalry entered the capital disguised as horse traders. Once inside the city, they charged straight towards the king’s palace. Overwhelmed with this sudden attack the king fled through the back door into the forested areas of East Bengal. Now Khilji was the ruler of the last stronghold of Buddhism in India.
This started the long process of Islamisation of Bengal which took more than five centuries to convert Buddhist Eastern Bengal into what will finally emerge as the Islamic Bangladesh.
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@nareshkumarn2088 Жыл бұрын

All Buddhist majority regions of India converted to Islam maybe because of absence of encouragement to warriors due to the preaching of peace but at the same time we have violent kings like Ashoka and even Kung fu and other martial arts born in Buddhist heartlands. New Indian Buddhist should remember that Buddha never disencouraged self defense.

@jayantkamble6082 Жыл бұрын

What about Bihar(magadha and republics).

@Nextgen_Tech 9 ай бұрын

That's how sinhalese in Sri Lanka saved the buddisam from foreign invaders. From India invaders like kaling maga, elara.. then Portuguese, it's biggest defeat of Portuguese in the Asia. Then Dutch and finally English colony. But majority people not converted to get profit.

@RationalismIsFuture 8 ай бұрын

@@Nextgen_Techyes. If you never do that. Srilanka will become indonesia

@mkadam9769 6 ай бұрын

True

@jrStorm-ym9kq 4 ай бұрын

Bodhi dharman ☑️

@marij28997 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for your content, I am a world religion student & the information you provide on the pre-islamification of South East Asia from a non-arab perspective & a golden rare find. Thank you for contributing to my education.

@BodhisattvaTravels Жыл бұрын

I am glad that you found the video useful.

@marij28997 Жыл бұрын

@@BodhisattvaTravels not just the video but your page itself

@user-nm8hj7ec7v Жыл бұрын

A world without Buddhism will be a dark age for all humanity. Buddhism is just like a mirror to reflect the darknesses and weaknesses of religions.😊

@dankpanda-hl3wn Жыл бұрын

jainism too,shraman religion basically

@Harry-bd6pb Жыл бұрын

A world without any religion will sure be heaven

@sapien2503 11 ай бұрын

@@Harry-bd6pb not shraman religions

@Harry-bd6pb 11 ай бұрын

@@sapien2503 not really 💀,

@sapien2503 11 ай бұрын

@@Harry-bd6pb any example events pls ..

@silentkiller421 Жыл бұрын

Pala empire was a major force in the spread of Buddhism in many parts of Asia; It was from Pala empire that reached a form of Buddhism called Ari Buddhism to upper Burma and it was from Pala empire the prominent missionaries reached Indonesia and Tibet (sumatra was predominantly Buddhist from 6th CE to 12th CE ). from both these countries(Tibet and indonesia) it carried out further missionaries to China. Eventhough now Buddhism has almost faded away from the whole of Bengal except for few pockets in Chittagong Hill tracts the remark it added on the Buddhist history is undeniable .

@jayantkamble6082 Жыл бұрын

Buddhism spreaded to china and south east asia long before Pala empire. No single dyanasties or person is responsible for spreading Buddhism.

@HaharuRecords Жыл бұрын

I can't understand what inspires Muslim rulers to destroy these cultures who have nothing to do against it. In the name of the LORD the most merciful..

@king_halcyon 10 ай бұрын

People have different intentions. Religions can't prevent them from being born in evil-oriented minds

@terraminsan7392 10 ай бұрын

Afraid, people revolt use buddhist.

@abdullahalmahin6385 9 ай бұрын

Muslim rulers did not destroy these culture. Buddhist culture of bengal destroyed by extremist Hindu Sena dynasty

@terraminsan7392 9 ай бұрын

How about Nalanda university.

@abdullahalmahin6385 8 ай бұрын

@@terraminsan7392 Its a propaganda. Nalanda University destroyed before muslim came in Bengal

@tithiraidurath2216 Жыл бұрын

Respect to u to know our buddhist History..india an bangladesh.. We hope next vedio..soon...

@towardstruth2125 Жыл бұрын

😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭brought tears to my heart, mind & eyes! Oh! My lord why did you let it happen!? Irreparable destruction! Unconsolable me!

@orunabho Жыл бұрын

True! Same here. It pains...lt is like dropping atom bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

@priantambarua4015 Жыл бұрын

@@orunabho right comparing

@sapien2503 11 ай бұрын

how come people follow a violent pedophile and his 72 virgin lust stories than true peace enlightenment. 😥😥really hurts. if Bengal remained Buddhist, it would be the one of the best countries.

@king_halcyon 10 ай бұрын

@@sapien2503because those "pedophile, 72 virgins" things are myths. Even atheist scholars dismiss these claims about Muhammad. So get educated illiterate lad

@abdullahalmahin6385 9 ай бұрын

We are happy and greatfull to Allah with Islam. May be our ancestors were Buddhist but now we are muslim. Islam is the last and only true religion.Islam is the most peaceful religion also

@MarkPrachaya Жыл бұрын

Buddha is the perfect one no one can be equal with him if we compare to failure god Buddha is not a pre messenger of any religion he the one who no serves no one but only himself Human beyond God. I respect Zoroaster for surviving for present day I didn’t mean to harm Ahura Mazda even it a first one god in the world.

@silentkiller421 Жыл бұрын

Nice video brother; We expect more videos like this in the future;

@BodhisattvaTravels Жыл бұрын

Thanks for your kind appreciation. The Part 2 of this video will discuss about the Top 10 reasons of mass conversion of Buddhists/ tribals and Hindus in Bengal into Islam. Please stay tuned for more videos on Buddhism.

@silentkiller421 Жыл бұрын

@@BodhisattvaTravels Sure sir; We are waiting for ur next video; Bengal was always a part of Buddhist heartland so this is important And I expect you to do such videos on all territories that converted to Islam from Buddhism; Like Malaysia Sumatra of Indonesia Afghanistan Maldives Tajikistan Uzbekistan and most importantly Xinjiang where everyone discusses about now aday; The conversion process of Xinjiang was brutal than any of these; Its mentioned in records how they desecrated Buddha statues humiliated Buddhists and killed them;

@sayantanmukherjee353 Жыл бұрын

Still the majority of Bengali people like ,love BUDDHISM. Though Hinduism prevail in West Bengal & Islam in East Bengal but people of BENGAL have great Respect,Love, Compassion for BUDDHISM & DHAMMA. Deep routed BUDDHISM cannot be erased from the heart of BENGALI people. The teaching later simplified by Swami Vivekananda, Ramkrishna & other notable Bengli.

@dankpanda-hl3wn Жыл бұрын

there are bengali jains too in purulia plus hieun tsang said punarvardhana i.e. bengal was a jain majority area

@king_halcyon 10 ай бұрын

@@dankpanda-hl3wnnot majority

@dankpanda-hl3wn 10 ай бұрын

@@king_halcyon yes he said it was a nirgrantha area

@munmunsarkar1726 9 ай бұрын

Buddhism still exist in chittagong region in Bangladesh having surnames of barua, mahasthavir, mahathero

@chikitshok 5 ай бұрын

Don't speak of behalf of all of Bengal, we Muslims represent the majority of Bengal and we believe that Islam is the ultimate truth. No religion deserves respect that transgress against the one singular creator who created everything.

@gautamupdeshvarman9097 Жыл бұрын

Please continue with more in future 🙏

@duk-from-Zanskar Жыл бұрын

I spit on Khilji for demolishing buddhist site rather building his own 😢

@Storm-1. 6 ай бұрын

Islam be like.

@joel12388 6 ай бұрын

As a Hindu I love Islam and Buddism. But I don't like destroying other sites.

@Storm-1. 6 ай бұрын

@@joel12388 then why you like islam this religion only establisht With war and destroying othere religions.

@pravahsaxena3537 5 ай бұрын

This was his upbringing the fault was in Indians lack of unity .

@History_Teller1250 Ай бұрын

@@Storm-1.Tell me you know nothing about Islam without telling me you know nothing about Islam :

@susantadeb7666 2 ай бұрын

After the Palas the Kamboj Palas who came from modern Tajikistan continued to rule parts of Bengal. as Buddhists Bakhtyar Khilji as the name suggests had their origin in Bactria or Bahlik in Afghanistan (present day Balkh) . Mercenaries and horse traders always came to Bengal to trade.

@NaDa-cp1by 6 ай бұрын

Buddhism has made peace to humans.

@zerouniverse7501 10 ай бұрын

We all are Buddhist unity again

@SS-ct4hv 11 ай бұрын

NAMO BUDDA JAI BHIM 🙏SIR JI🙏 BOHOT ACHHI JAANKARI DI AAP NE 🙏🙏💙💙SUKRIYA

@bumble633 Жыл бұрын

I like these videos, but you could have mentioned partition.

@BodhisattvaTravels Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the suggestion. The Part 2 will discuss about the Top 10 reasons of mass conversion of Buddhists/ tribals and Hindus in Bengal. Please stay tuned for more videos on Buddhism.

@vinnysing1324 5 ай бұрын

Bengal has become so backwards after become a Muslim country

@royalbengal4590 10 ай бұрын

Make this video in bengali language it will inspire more people.

@jayantkamble6082 Жыл бұрын

Political support is one of growth engines of soreading of any religions. After 12th century AD, Buddhism and Jainism buth lost their political support, replaced with islam and hinduism. Like many south Indian kings were initially jain but later converted to Hinduism. For instance, hoysala jain kings converted to Hinduism. When islam started to spread in india, Jainism and Buddhism were already weak economically and culturally. Strong holds of jainism n buddhism magadha converted to Hinduism and islam. After collapse of pala dynasty, hindu sena dynasty took charge of bengol and spreaded hinduism. Same with Pakistan and Afghanistan where Buddhism became weak politically and culturally, replaced by hinduism later islam.

@dankpanda-hl3wn Жыл бұрын

not only hoysalas but pandyas,pallavas,kakatiyas,rashtrakutas all south indian and west indian dynasties were jains before and north indian dynasties were buddhist

@amitsarkar3019 29 күн бұрын

Add date on the maps shown for better understanding.

@snehashispanda4808 4 ай бұрын

Muslim social attitudes on modern issues have caused controversy everywhere. Islam to be incompatible with secular society, and that, unlike other religions, Islam positively commands its adherents to impose its religious law on all peoples, believers and unbelievers alike, whenever possible and by any means necessary. Islam allows to propagate abuses, such as the mistreatment of women and homosexuals, and slavery. They also state that multiculturalism allows a degree of religious freedom that exceeds what is needed for personal religious freedom and is conducive to the creation of organizations aimed at undermining secular values. According to poll, high people had an unfavourable view of Islam, higher than for any other religion.Islamic rule in India was a form of colonialism, characterized by the imposition of a foreign islamic culture, religion, and political system on the Indian subcontinent. Muslims were foreign invaders who came to India and imposed their Islamic faith and culture on the indigenous population. They point to examples of the destruction of Hindu temples, the imposition of Jizya tax on non-Muslims, and the forced conversions to Islam as evidence of this colonialist mindset.

@sunitamore8718 11 ай бұрын

Satnam waheguru ji ki Jay Respectful Sir now Unfortunately Very Sad to Stupidly Memory Of Khilji His Burning🔥 Nalanda university of Lot of Books in medicine Ayurveda

@jrStorm-ym9kq 4 ай бұрын

Bamano ka haath tha jalwane me.

@LordLebu Жыл бұрын

Atish Dipankar

@mayanksinghfartiyal5290 Жыл бұрын

But you didn't tell the reason of why or how people converted to islam post invasion of khilji

@user-vo9uc1in3 11 ай бұрын

Sufi and due to king Ganesha son

@king_halcyon 10 ай бұрын

Mostly peaceful missionaries and general discontent with the Hindu leaders and their imposed caste system.

@rajan36742 10 ай бұрын

Destruction of all Buddhist learning centres, Genocide of Buddhist Bhikkhus and force conversion of peaceful Buddhists by invading brutal muslim army under the command of Khilji. (It was ISIS of that time)

@Storm-1. 6 ай бұрын

@@king_halcyonbecause of high taxes and fiting them until they convertet or unable to fight anymore like the qoran says qoran 9.29.

@History_Teller1250 Ай бұрын

@@Storm-1.The verse you quoted (9:29) is not saying that Muslims should fight non-Muslims and force them to pay the Jizya. It talks about an event in particular. It talks about the Ghassanid Kingdom and the Byzantine Empire. It doesn't tell to kill non-Muslims. Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) had sent emissaries to many neighboring kingdoms encouraging them to accept Islam. The Ghassanid governor of governor of Basra Shurahbil ibn Amr had one of these emissaries detained and executed. Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) asked the Ghassanid King Jabalah V to either pay compensation to the emissary's family or send Shurahbil ibn Amr to be executed but he rejected both options so a Muslim army of 3.000 soldiers was sent against him and verse you quoted (9:29) was then revealed encouraging the Muslims to avenge the emissary. Jabalah V asked for help from his Byzantine overlord Emperor Heraclius who sent a contingent of 5.000 soldiers who combined with the 5.000 soldiers Jabalah V had. Toghether, the combined ally army of 10.000 soldiers managed to repell the Muslim invasion and win a phyrric victory at the Battle of Mu'tah altought they lost a total of 3.350 men in the battle which is almost half of their combined armies meaning they could not exploit their victory. Many tribes that had joined the Muslims took this opportunity and broke away...

@Enjoyinformation-hi9uo 10 ай бұрын

Fantastic video.

@t.d3559 Жыл бұрын

I'm from bengal I read all of these In formation in bengali ncert book class 9 10 but most bengali deceived by Brahman iskon

@Ab-vf6bg 10 ай бұрын

We Bengalis were very unlucky that we got a king as Shashank who cutdown peepal tree of bodhgaya 2nd time and he was gauda king probably with his foolishness bengal lost west side of Bengal losses Buddha's path and later conversion of islam

@rajan36742 10 ай бұрын

Shasanka died in 630 AD. Bengal was under the Pala Empire for more than 400 years, until 1161 CE. It's a well-known fact that it was a barbaric Islamic invasion that wiped out peaceful Buddhism from our Bengal. It wasn't that long ago when thousands of Moslem t3rrorists in Ramu, Bangladesh by spreading rumour of blasphemy against Buddhists, burned down thousands of ancient Buddhist manuscripts as well as hundreds of Buddha statues. Let alone the incidents of Bamiyan Buddha and others!

@rejoanbary2155 8 ай бұрын

Shashanka is praised as the first independent king of Bengal.

@shahriaratul 15 күн бұрын

Indians/west bengal people thinks that only Bangladeshi people are converted in reality, the aryans forcibly coverted bengals to hindusim and buddhism and looted the weath of bengals. ( we are proud that our forefathers adopted the true religion)

@banglasphere302 12 күн бұрын

First comes dispair, then comes acceptance, then comes servitude.

@t.d3559 Жыл бұрын

Pura bihar up Uttarakhand bangla mein tha

@prakharshankar3064 8 ай бұрын

Bihar odisha bangla only not up

@amitpatil7703 9 ай бұрын

ओर करो जय मिम, जय भीम के साथ जय मिम आया पतही नाही चला .

@sjain8111 Жыл бұрын

Nalanda University 🙏🙏🪔

@exreligionAthist 8 ай бұрын

Proud to be indian ex muslim❤

@pirateking45 6 ай бұрын

30 seconds in. He starts his propagana. hahaha.

@AbdullahAlEmon-xu5gf Ай бұрын

A false history. Bakhtiyar khilji came bangla at 1203 But nalonda University destroyed in 1193. How it's possible muslim destroy it. It had destroyed by Hindu Sen ruler. You believe or not it remain true.

@Bengalinationalist 9 ай бұрын

as a bengali🇧🇩,I surely believe khilji as invaders,who killed our forefathers,but the religion of Buddhism is not the ultimate truth, Islam is mahasatya,sheshsatya

@RationalismIsFuture 8 ай бұрын

There is no ultimate truth for fools of different religions. It doesn't matter until humans out efforts and people are not interested in enlightenment

@prakharshankar3064 8 ай бұрын

Islam is a curse of 🌎 worlds

@RationalismIsFuture 8 ай бұрын

Buddhism is good

@prakharshankar3064 8 ай бұрын

@@RationalismIsFuture Buddhist afaganistan main khatam hua

@Bengalinationalist 6 ай бұрын

@@prakharshankar3064 at least we dont worship false clay idols