Buddhism

Is it possible that it merely looks like a decline to those who are attached to it in its original form?

All is impermanent, why should any particular understanding of the Dharma be exempt from that iron law of nature?

It feels to me as though the Dharma is undergoing a great expansion right now, as humanity reaches out with fumbling hands to try and find a path past the coming shift of civilization. From this point of view, the Dharma is being incorporated into a vast efflorescence of wisdom teachings. Even though it occupies a larger place in Western consciousness, it may be forming an ever smaller part of the global consciousness as our horizons expand without cease.

Or I might be mistaken.