Dear Narensomu,
For the second link I have suggested , the Sulekha blog by Sri MKV Narayan, you should use the link I have given without the ? mark at the end. The mark is there because a question ends with that link there.
Thank you. Partha

Dear Narensomu,
Do look at my comment and Pradip's reply just below and you will notice that they align with your s made on pradips blog on why Buddhists worship Hindu deities. Also please go through this Wikipedia link.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddha_as_an_Avatar_of_Vishnu
Can I also trouble you to go through the blog by Sri MKV Narayan entitled Open Thoughts #3, for which the link is
http://mkvnarayan.sulekha.com/blog/post/2008/02/open-thoughts-3-desikan-vs-mkv.htm?
Warm regards.
Partha.

Friends,
While we are scratching our heads as to why some Buddhists should have been holding Hindu deities in ridicule and why others must have started praying to some of them later (read comments on this blog as well as those on Pradip's specifically on this question), let us also enquire why it was found necessary for some Hindus to include the Buddha as an avatar of Vishnu. Some accommodation seems to have been arrived at between the two religious groups at some point.
Regards. Partha

Dear Pradip,
The four headed deity being worshipped all over Thailand is the divine Brahma alright. he is unlikely to be the 'fool' whom the Buddha tried to educate and elevate.
Partha

Yes Dwai. The trinity being identified with Guru as well as the Infinite principle is evident from the popular couplet,which says Guru is Brahma. Guru is Vishnu. Guru is Maheswara. Guru is the Infinite available before our eyes. Salutation to that Guru
You are right about the identity of the formal Gurus of Devas and Asuras as well.
Partha.

Dear Dwai,
A sanatanic Vedanti has a lot of respect for Acharyas/Sadgurus and not for merely learned people. These too command respect of sorts, but Acharyas who definitely lead one on the path of liberation are like God and often treated as God. All puranic references show the Siva/Parameswara concept not merely to be Almighty and powerful, but meditative, contemplative, serene as sadguru Dakshinamurthy, a true companion and controller of Mother Shakti, who also derives from the Infinite, and shown to be teaching Mother all the time facets of the Infinite Truth, using this ruse to teach us in turn. His compassion is only occasionally shown to have supported forces of evil. Puranas on the other hand consistently depict the creator principle Brahma, from whom, or more strictly through whom, all existence derived the knowledge of the Vedas, as a storehouse of knowledge rather than as a teacher. Several of his offspring including his wife/daughter and several Rishis qualified as Sadgurus, however. Brahma is shown to have consistently chosen wrong beneficiaries for his Grace and boons, merely by virtue of long and hard penances, to have set poor examples in integrity, probity and vrtue and joining delegations against evil forces, only when lesser Devas conveyed to him the heat they felt. Puranas and itihasas also glorified Vishnu in several ways identifying him as the infinite and to an equal/nearly equal extent Siva and Shakti. While not much evidence is there in the itihasas of the presence of temples in India during the assumed period of their historic content, both itihasas and puranas would have influenced people's thinking as to who should be worshipped, when the temples did develop. The ancient geogeaphy and some historic circumstances could have helped in the development of so called Aryan and socalled Dravidian cultures in distinct regions, but these started merging very early in the history of our land. It is possible that organized temple worship could have been largely a Dravidian rather than an Aryan idea.
I would not worry too much about three different legends current about Brahma, which are supposed to have disqualiified him for temple worship. He is supposed to have spoken falsehood in one, shown undue haste in starting a yagna before his wife could arrive on the scene and arranged for another wife for yagna purposes in a second story, and to have been struck by infatuation for a beautiful maid of his own creation, Shatarupa/Tilottama in a third. These may have just amounted to giving him a bad name before condemning him. Poet Kalidasa worked avidly for reestablishment of the Trimurti concept, where the Creator, the Sustainer and Destroyer roles were assigned to three aspects of the same param brahma. Brahma was thus the Creator brahmam and in the Kalidasiya kavya, Kumarasambhava, Devas seeking his help refer to him as Trimurti, before going along with him to Vishnu and to Siva in penance.
Buddhists seeking to add colour to Buddha's life and teachings scanned the upanishads for help and introduces Brahmam as having guided the master towards enlightenment, which would sound correct to most of us. Brahmam must have crystallized as Brahma subsequently, especialy as Vishnu and Siva dominated the Hindu scene at the time.
Regards. Partha.
Dear Narensomu,
The Bhuvaneswari Adheenam Swami Shantananda established a Saraswati shrine as part of a Devi Bhuvaneswari temple complex in Salem. Very recently the same group similarly establshed another such complex and another Saraswati shrine near Marudamalai in Coimbatore postal limits and I have been privileged to pay my respcts to Mother Saraswati there.
Regards. Partha