Edited sentence: 1) Buddhism means teaching of Buddha.2) Buddha said that after 500 years after his death there will be little or no truth left in his teachings.3) Buddha did NOT teach chanting, meditation, worship (bowing to statues), Zen or Tantra.Buddha taught of the age when people used his teachings to lead others into darkness, yet in present day "Buddhism" little or no emphasis is made on these references.But how can these practises be labelled as "Buddhism" when Buddha did not teach them.So from Buddhas own words we can see the phenomena of the erosion of his teachings, by the simple facts that His teachings have been eroded through human discourse into other peoples wrong teachings of meditation, worship, chanting, Zen and Tantra, which they teach under the guise of Buddhism.The Degeneration of Buddhism.There is absolutely no evidence whatsoever, anywhere that Buddha taught any of these practises, there are some references to meditation, but when studied carefully we can see that in these instances it means only to reflect on ones thoughts.There is no evidence that it means sitting down and concentrating ones mind for long periods of time, and yet this form of "meditation" has become the basis of modern "Buddhism".We can even see the facts when history shows it was about 500 years after His death when people first started to make Buddha statues and idols, and at about the same time the term "Mahayana" came about