Not really. I'd recommend doing some reading on the difference between buddhism and shinto in Japan and how both religions are often found in the same person - buddhist in death, shinto in life (or maybe it was the other way around). Buddhism is highly syncretic, so it's often very well integrated into even present religious, societal or myth structures. It's why in the past we got green tibetan evil wizard boddhistavas and today we have chinese 'humanistic' buddhism (we are not at all concerned with the spiritual and supernatural, Comrade Mao, Please ignore all those god statues literally two feet from where we stand that are a mixture of local and foreign deities with a buddhist gloss.). It's just hard to see from the outside, similar to how even today you might have some trouble spotting the influence of assorted churches or mosques and how they're integrated because you're unfamilar with specifics or the cultural aspects or even the historical influences because of the same. But more difficult because the tongue and culture are alien to you.

I suppose it depends on what you mean by decline. Raw numbers no, maybe pure zealotry? A lot of the eastern nations didn't get the goy beam, so they didn't experience the death of meaning the way the west did and there wasn't really a resurgence in religious attendance the way we've started to see here. Even western educated college students didn't chase it off when they returned. It never left, just sitting (heh) quietly in the background.

>>18325745
>I suppose it depends on what you mean by decline. Raw numbers no
I'm pretty sure it's ceding to atheism, like most religions

>>18326121
>>I suppose it depends on what you mean by decline. Raw numbers no

Not really. It's certainly had *a* decline, but it's pretty much stabilised in terms of percentages - reversed in some places, but not much. I suspect that a large number of those who identify as adherents are just people who say "Yeah sure I'm a buddhist" and go to the temple every now and again for social aspects. That's the decline that should concern op.

>>18326121
I doubt this. Certainly sounds like it when atheists in the west “try” Buddhism and come out disappointed that it wasn’t compatible with Dawkins-style scientism, but Buddhism is highly syncretic. It can be a religion in itself, or combine with other religions in many ways. It can combine with fascism (see WW2 era Japanese Buddhism) and Communism (see China, and also India’s Navayana movement). It is currently seamlessly integrating with environmentalism as its precepts of vegetarianism, not harming life, of compassion for all beings, and of not taking more than needed out of greed are quite popular with many environmentalists. 20th century atheist existentialism (not Zen existentialism, but rather Sartre and co.) also found Buddhism to be highly compatible, see Hazel Barnes’ writings on the matter, and many Stoic bros think Buddhism is a worthy philosophy to combine with their (mostly misguided and Marcus Aurelius-derived) Stoic practice.

The bottom line is that unless you are thinking about r/atheism and its euphoric retards Buddhism has a lot of syncretism with modern philosophical and political movements that are otherwise secular, left or right.

There are some people online pushing back against secular and western buddhism, but i found that most of them are just semi-third worldist retards who get butthurt about orientalism (while they themselves hold 99% of typical progressive/leftist views). It seems like it really is fucked.

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>>18327121
>treat everuone with equality and kindness

he didnt say that

>>18327262
Buddha has taught us that treating others with love and compassion is the right thing to do
>treating all beings with unconditional kindness (metta) and compassion (karuna) is essential to cultivating a peaceful mind and reducing suffering