History: Why does Southern Buddhism seem to disappear from history at certain periods?

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Padmist
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History: Why does Southern Buddhism seem to disappear from history at certain periods?

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Do you know why the history of Buddhism in Southern Asia seem to be spotty at different periods? Active at times, disappearing or blank on others? http://www.buddhanet.net/e-learning/his ... meline.htm

or is it a failure of history records/lost records?
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Re: History: Why does Southern Buddhism seem to disappear from history at certain periods?

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Padmist wrote: Wed Jan 13, 2021 11:29 am Do you know why the history of Buddhism in Southern Asia seem to be spotty at different periods? Active at times, disappearing or blank on others? http://www.buddhanet.net/e-learning/his ... meline.htm
or is it a failure of history records/lost records?
Isn't it like that everywhere else with destructive wars and invasions? E.g. the demise of Anuradhapura and Polonnaruwa, the destruction of Ayutthaya. But you can find similar blank spots, and ups and downs in the histories of China, Korea, and Japan.
1 Myriad dharmas are only mind.
Mind is unobtainable.
What is there to seek?

2 If the Buddha-Nature is seen,
there will be no seeing of a nature in any thing.

3 Neither cultivation nor seated meditation —
this is the pure Chan of Tathagata.

4 With sudden enlightenment to Tathagata Chan,
the six paramitas and myriad means
are complete within that essence.


1 Huangbo, T2012Ap381c1 2 Nirvana Sutra, T374p521b3; tr. Yamamoto 3 Mazu, X1321p3b23; tr. J. Jia 4 Yongjia, T2014p395c14; tr. from "The Sword of Wisdom"
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