According to Osho, Buddhism was uprooted from India for a simple reason: the masses can forgive anything except genius. Buddha’s penetrating clarity threatened collective mediocrity and established interests; such genius provokes fear, envy, and backlash. When a luminous consciousness appears, the crowd rejects it rather than transform, so the tradition is driven out despite its profundity.
People often push away truly wise voices because they feel too uncomfortable, so Buddha’s path got pushed out.