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Re:The Last Dalai Lama? by GFK_of_xmaspast on Thursday December 03, 2015 @01:46PM (#10671646)
Do you have any idea of the size of the conspiracy that would be necessary to pull this off.

Here are three things you need to explain just for starters: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borobudur https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wat_Arun https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journey_to_the_West

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Re:The Last Dalai Lama? by Alex3917 on Thursday December 03, 2015 @02:01PM (#10671743)
Well considering the argument is that what is practiced today as Buddhism is a small subset of what was believed/practiced previously, you would in fact expect all that stuff to exist...

And the fact Borobudur was only excavated in the mid 1800s and wasn't reconstructed until recently isn't exactly evidence that it was still considered an important part of the religion before then.

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Re:The Last Dalai Lama? by notahacker on Thursday December 03, 2015 @03:03PM (#10672181)
Borobudur ceased to have religious significance because the Javanese switched to Islam
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