All religions ,and most of the people practicing those religions , seem to believe that they are the sole owners of the truth and that everybody else is simply wrong. I believe this to be  a very dangerous way of behaving . Even worse is that people interpret holy writings in their own subjective way . Reading through a translation of , say"the Lotus Sutra ", we are left scratching our heads as to the meaning of various obscure descriptions and having someone tell us that they know exactly what those passages mean ,even though they don't speak ,read or write the language the book was written in , or come from that particular culture ,doesn't help in understanding what was meant.
  Take for example  when the Buddha says that Kashyapa will become a Buddha named Bright Light in a  kalpa called Great Adornment in a land called Light Virtue. How can we possibly know what that means, what significance ' or connotation , it has in the context of attaining buddhahood. In the original language of the Buddha these terms must have had some specific meaning. How do we find out what that is ? The Indian culture is still there in north eastern India although it is a Hindu culture , except for Bangladesh and a lot of Assam .