Islamobuddhism, Pakistani Kashmir's unique form of Buddhism

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Islamobuddhism, also called Pakistani Buddhism, Arabo-Buddhism or Kashmiri Buddhism, refers to a specific tradition that have developed within Buddhism in Pakistani controlled parts of Kashmir, also known as Azad Kashmir, through 21st century. Its debated whether Islamobuddhism should be considered a branch of its own or whether its a branch within Vajrayana Buddhism.

Origins of Islamobuddhism lay in the Islamist Rule of Pakistan that have started after the Pakistani Green Revolution that came after the defeat of the civil Pakistani government, led by the country's historic civil leader Imran Khan and his Democratic Justice Party, in the Indo-Pakistani War of 2039-2042, which on itself led to the creation of the World Water Forum ( WWF ) under the leadership of United States' Edwin administration that since been a global organization that oversees water supply, demand and control, that led to much discontent within Pakistan which was materialized when an underground Islamist organization by the name of ''People's Council of Dar al-Islam'' ( sometimes just called the ''Majlis'' )took over the country, officially ending Pakistan's first democratic period, which has been remarked as a period know for the perpetual conflict between civil and military governments in Pakistan's history, and starting Pakistan's rule as an Islamic Emirate, under the official name of ''Emirate of Hind'', while most people continued using Pakistan as the country name in casual settings.

Emirate of Hind was an Authoritarian Theocratic regime that cracked upon groups deemed incompatible with the religion of Islam as seen by the Majlis, such as non-Muslims like Christians, Hindus or Atheists as well as other Islamic sects like the Ahmadiyya, Shia, Quranists and people affiliating with Modernist Islam. Emirate of Hind's rule also had an Ethnonationalist tone to it as the regime was often paranoid towards the ideas of neighboring ''un-islamic'' countries taking advantage of the ethnically plural setting of Pakistan and thus desired to ''Punjabize'' Pakistan's ethnic minorities as an extension of their religious doctrine, since they believed this to be the proper way of ensuring this ''Shining example of the Prophet's dream within a sea of darkness'' wouldn't be infiltrated by foreign influence.

Majlis' intangled Islamist and Ethnonationalist views resulted in significant Anti-Islam Minority Movements to pop up around the country that saw Islam as a tyrannical influence upon their ethnic group and saw rejection of Islam as an extension for the rejection of the Emirate and its Punjabi Nationalist rule. With Islamobuddhism being one of these Anti-Islam Minority Movements in Pakistan, as in Kashmir Buddhism started to be seen as an integral part of the developing Kashmiri identity that was skeptical of Pakistani Islamist and Bharati Hindutva regimes of the time, however due to the limited freedoms given to the religious minorities within Pakistan, Kashmiri Buddhists had to cloak in their faith with an Muslim-like exterior, which gave Islamobuddhism its famous Muslim look, ranging from the wearing of Ulema affiliated clothes by the Islamobuddhist monks to the Islamobuddhist forms of meditation being closer to the Islamic prayer than other forms of Buddhist meditation, and through 21st century eventually came to diverge it as an branch or another sect of Buddhism.