A world without Christianity and Islam: Indian religion.

Dear comrades, ladies and gentlemen. I'm having the following thoughts:
One of the reasons for the fall of Buddhism in India, there have been numerous Muslim invasion. Imagine that Islam and Christianity (in order to eliminate the invasion of the Nestorians and other Eastern churches). Maybe the new conquerors will patronize Buddhism? Maybe Punjabis and Sindhi become followers of the Indian Mahayana? Please note that Buddhism was fairly common in the Pashtun tribes. Logic invasions excludes only short Abbasid invasion. The procedure is as follows: Ephtalites - Ghaznavids - Ghurids - Delhi Shahs (the representatives of the Turkic and Persian peoples) - Moguls (Genghis Khan nor canceled).
 
Hinduism has proven to be resilient otl I don't think Buddhism will penetrate that far.
On the bright side with less Abrahamic religions floating around we likely get more Pagans.
 
While @JackLumber is right that Hinduism will remain resilient in India, I think that Buddhism will make much further gains ITTL. It will go to China and Southeast Asia as it did IOTL, but will also have more opportunity to spread westward. In the late Roman Empire, monasticism and the denial of worldly goods and pleasures was an idea whose time had come; Buddhist missionaries can work with these ideas, and Buddhism could make deep inroads into the (former) Roman Empire, becoming deeply entrenched in Europe and North Africa.
 
While @JackLumber is right that Hinduism will remain resilient in India, I think that Buddhism will make much further gains ITTL. It will go to China and Southeast Asia as it did IOTL, but will also have more opportunity to spread westward. In the late Roman Empire, monasticism and the denial of worldly goods and pleasures was an idea whose time had come; Buddhist missionaries can work with these ideas, and Buddhism could make deep inroads into the (former) Roman Empire, becoming deeply entrenched in Europe and North Africa.
I do not think that Buddhists manage to gain a foothold in Western Europe and Africa, but it is very likely that they will affect the neopagan philosophy. And if it can make the colonists (If Europe will reach to such). I think that the Turks howling in Iran will soon Mazdakism. But Buddhism was OTL spread in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Therefore, I think that it will be interesting Ghaznavids. Although I think that Buddhism with the help of the Mongols is able to gain a foothold in Eastern Europe.
In Europe matters I am guided by this version - https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/to-ourselves-to-new-paganism.386699/
 
I wouldn't overlook the success of Hindu religions in the Middle East too, or presume that just because Zoroastrianism was in decline by the emergence of Islam that it couldn't have thrived in another form.
 
I wouldn't overlook the success of Hindu religions in the Middle East too, or presume that just because Zoroastrianism was in decline by the emergence of Islam that it couldn't have thrived in another form.
Hmm ... Well, I try to stick to our versions of resettlement. Unlike the lobster version Parthians (as in OTL) changed the Sassanids. In the second half of the fifth century, the Persian Empire in crisis, and its border plagued Ephtalites that none mennee its main objective announced India. By the middle of the eighth century Persia must survive the crisis. Since Islam is not, the Arabs still disparate tribes. This means that the caliphate will be, and the Arab invasion in the best case will be very limited. By the year 930 still must be replaced by a dynasty, though it will not rule long. Even forty years later settled in Afghanistan Turks must build Ghaznavid state. Later, he must conquer Seljuk, And Ghaznavids will transfer the capital to Lahore.
On the one hand the Turks should be linked with Buddhism. On the other - without their Islamic state should differ toleration. Maybe it peculiar syncretism based on Zoroastrianism and Buddhism?
 
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