Was Tirupati a Buddhist Shrine
Tirupati Balaji was an ancient Buddhist Shrine. Brahmins converted Buddhist shrine into Tirupati Balaji. After the end of the Maurya dynasty, Brahmins started attacking Buddhist shrines.
There are 1150 inscriptions in Tirupati from the Pallava period onwards. Not one inscription ever says it was a Buddhist temple. Even in ancient Sangam literature, Venkatam was the holy place of Mayon(Vishnu). In fact, Buddhists like Dignaga avoided Tirupati. Tirupati is a town in Chittoor district of Andhra. In the entire Chittoor district, not a single Buddhist site has been discovered to date. Buddhist presence in Rayalaseema was always minimal.