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Each and every Eastern religion emphasised fasting - Hindu and Muslims and Buddhists know the benefits of it.

E.g., s/Why are Sri Lankan Buddhists espousing racist ideologies?/Why are American Christians espousing anti-gay ideologies?/ and you understand the context just fine.

There are degrees of everything, and very few Buddhists (if any) believe they're going to achieve liberation after only a single lifetime.

As the Buddhists say, the temporary nature of things is unavoidable and neutral, it's ones desire for permanence that causes a problem.

Your Chinese Buddhists are clinging to this law, the Muslims and Christians are fellow-travelers.

Tibetan Buddhists and other weird occult folk knew about them for ages, and required years of training before approaching them as a subject.

Not actually true, otherwise all Buddhists would become monastics, which they don't.

I think you'll find that Buddhists see value in questions much more than in answers.

Such dialogue and defense of the self lasted hundreds of years and objections by the new philosophies of the Buddhists were adequately answered by scholars.

Or could it be that it's neither nor one, nor the other, nor both, nor neither, as some buddhists have suggested?

> Buddhists bet their horse in one particular lifetime on eventually escaping suffering by following Buddhist teaching/philosophy.

There's a reason terrorist recruitment amongst muslims works much better than among, say, christians or hindus or buddhists or..., and that reason is differences in the ideology.

That's not unique to Islam -- there is a buddhist insurgent army (dkba) and a buddhist terrorist group (969 group) and most buddhists would recognise "I abstain from killing" as one of the five most important principles of Buddhism.

As we are talking about buddhist country it would be much wiser to look at what buddhists think (as almost the whole religion is about happiness) than just look at one tiny part and think that is the "thing" to be happy.

Christians, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains and "Others" - since my cultural background is a combination of some of those, I'm fairly confident that the author's perspective does not reflect my community, and likely some of the other minority communities, of which India has 7 million people.

Such philosophical principals of atheism were dealt with thousands of years ago in philosophical debates between Hindus and Buddhists.

Buddhists believe that positive karma is accumulated over many lifetimes, and negative karma is extinguished after periods of suffering.

You can totally tell the difference from them and someone who isn't considered (at least by Buddhists) to be enlightened.