[Buddha-l] Decline of Buddhism in India

[Jo]

Might be useful to read Berzin on the question of spread of Buddhism, for a
start.
One can start here:  http://tinyurl.com/6st23rr 

Classical Buddhism central Asia map here:
http://www.berzinarchives.com/web/images/en/map02.jpg 

Another interesting map:
http://www.berzinarchives.com/web/images/en/map03.jpg  on spread of Buddhism
into central Asia

http://www.berzinarchives.com/cms/x/s/searchresult.html?path=%2Fen%2F&__loca
le=en&query=The+Pala+empire&submit=Search  These pages might get us
somewhere about the vanishing of Buddhism in India--sorry, no time to read
all this now--offering these as maybe useful.

Berzin is a Mahayanist --don't be surprised to see the term Hinayana on
these pages. 

Joanna