Jagannath Temple, Puri, Orissa Was A Buddhist Temple

[Guest amar_jkp]

Jagannath Temple, Puri, Orissa was a Buddhist temple ---Swami Vivekananda

RSS gang and other sections of the Hindutva brigade have been

demanding conversion of mosques into Hindu temples without

proofs so sites have to be excavated. But there are creditable

proofs that many Buddhist temples were forcibly converted into

Hindu temples. One of such temples happens to be Jagannath

temple at Puri, Orissa. And it is no other person who makes

it public but Swami Vivekananda.

Swami Vivekananda while intervening into a debate whether

Jesus Christ ever visited Jagannath temple tells: "There was

a book written a year or two ago by a Russian gentleman, who

claimed to have found out a very curious life of Jesus Christ,

and in one part of the book he says that Christ went to the

temple of Jaganath to study with the Brahmins, but became

disgusted with their exclusiveness and their idols and so

he went to the Lamas of Tibet instead, became prefect, and

went home. To any man who knows anything about Indian history,

that very statement proves that the whole thing was fraud,

because the temple of Jaganath is an old Buddhistic temple.

We took this and others over and re-Hinduised them. We shall

have to do many things like that yet. That is Jagannath,

and there was not one Brahmin there then, and yet we are

told that Jesus Christ came to study with the Brahmins there.

So says our great Russian archaeologist." [swami Vivekananda

in 'The Sages of India' in The Complete Works of Swami

Vivekananda, Vol 3, p264, published by Advaita Ashram,

Calcutta]

The Hindutva brigade must tell the nation when are they going

to return this Buddhist temple to the Buddhists?

[Mehtab Singh]

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[JustME]

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[singh1986]

This Temple is very Controversial even within the Hindu Dharam... It bans all low castes and foreign people which means for white people belonging to ISKCON its a bit of a pain. Here is a Powerfull Hindu Institution that freely promotes and upholds its Caste and Racist Ideology and they do this via scriptural support apparently.

Here's a Gora Hindu voicing his disgust at the policy found there.