Talk:Religion in Nepal/Archive 1

Archive 1

Omissions

This article has several significant omissions:

• Hinduism and Buddhism are intermingled in Nepal's ancient history as well as in current practice. In fact Siddhartha -- the Buddha -- was born and raised in the small kingdom Kapilvastu which became part of modern Nepal. Buddhism is derivative of Hinduism as Christianity is derivative of Judaism. Just as Jesus did not set out to found a new religion but saw himself as a prophet and the Jewish Messiah; the Buddha saw himself as a Hindu and as a reforming commentator on that tradition.
• Until 2006 the monarchy or its heredetary prime ministers held ultimate authority over religious doctrine and practice, particularly in the Hindu and Hindu-Buddhist sphere, although perhaps less so among Buddhists of Tibetan affinity. A substantial amount of religious practice and derived social custom was codified into law. This led to differences between Hinduism in Nepal and in India, which was under British Company rule in India and British Raj some 200 years and a (more or less) secular state thereafter.
• The Kingdom of Nepal had religious tolerance in the sense that there was little inter-faith violence of the sort that has plagued India. Nevertheless, peacefulness was predicated on each religion "knowing its place" in a system where Hinduism had supremacy enforced by kings who were not only Hindu by personal conviction, but also by implementing traditional and proactive definitions of what it meant to be a Hindu king. Individuals were expected to stay within the bounds of the religious tradition they were born into. There was little recognition of Freedom of religion, which paradoxically India had to a large extent, even before British rule.
• There are about a million Nepali Muslims mainly living in the southern Terai plains. This resulted from extension of Nepalese rule tens of kilometers south from the hills into areas with longstanding Muslim populations.
• Nepal has a growing population of Christians. Although proselytization was forbidden in the Kingdom, it was conducted clandestinely especially by evangelical Protestant denominations. There were also converts among expatriates returning to Nepal.

Oh my, someone fix this page.

I am in class right now and I am unable to fix this page (again). I managed to do it but there was an edit conflict and I lost everything. This page should be taken down until someone can fix the atrocious grammar in this article, it is near impossible to decipher. Thanks. VF01 — Preceding unsigned comment added by VF01 (talk • contribs) 00:22, 1 July 2019 (UTC)

I can back up this claim. This article needs a lot of work. I started the first part, as noted in my edit summary, however the article needs plenty more work. I also added templates to the page to alert readers. Thanks, WBPchur (talk) 06:00, 1 July 2019 (UTC).