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*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?*
