Question

Buddhism gradually lost its popularity in India because

A) it did not promise to make life easy for its adherents.
B) brahmins, the dominant class of classical India, no longer tolerated Buddhism.
C) Buddhist monasteries were abolished in India by royal decree.
D) it grew increasingly remote from the population at large.
E) All these answers are correct.

Answer 1

Buddhism gradually lost its popularity in India because it grew increasingly remote from the population at large. Now, almost 80% of the population is Hindi, their religion is mostly Hinduism.