I want know the difference and the similarity between Hinduism and Buddhism. Also the same thing they both do.
Please answer :)|||Buddhism, the Fulfillment of Hinduism
I am not a Buddhist, as you have heard, and yet I am. If China and Japan and Sri Lanka follow the teachings of the Buddha, India worships him as God incarnate on earth.
You have just now heard that I am going to criticize Buddhism, but by that I wish you to understand only this. Far be it from me to criticize him whom I worship as God incarnate on earth. Our view about the Buddha is that he was not understood properly by his disciples. The relation between Hinduism (by Hinduism, I mean the religion of the Vedas) and what is called Buddhism at the present day is nearly the same as between Judaism and Christianity. Jesus Christ was a Jew, and Shakya Muni [Buddha] was a Hindu. The Jews rejected Jesus Christ, nay, crucified him, whereas the Hindus accept Shakya Muni as God incarnate and worship him.
But the real difference that we Hindus want to show between modern Buddhism and what we should understand as the teachings of the Buddha lies principally in this: Shakya Muni came to preach nothing new. Like Jesus, the Buddha came to fulfill and not to destroy. In the case of Jesus, it was the old people, the Jews, who did not understand him, while in the case of the Buddha, it was his own followers who did not realize the import of his teachings. As the Jew did not understand the fulfillment of the Old Testament, so the Buddhist did not understand the fulfillment of the truths of the Hindu religion. Again, I repeat, Shakya Muni came not to destroy, but he was the fulfillment, the logical conclusion, the logical development of the religion of the Hindus.
The religion of the Hindus is divided into two parts: the ceremonial and the spiritual. The spiritual portion is specially studied by the monks. In it, there is no caste. In India a man from the highest caste and a man from the lowest can become monks, thus the two castes become equal. In religion there is no caste; caste is simply a social institution. Shakya Muni himself was a monk, and it was his glory that he had the large-heartedness to bring out the truths hidden in the Vedas and throw them broadcast all over the world. He was the first being in the world who brought missionaries into practice--nay, he was the first to conceive the idea of proselytizing.
The great glory of the Master lay in his wonderful sympathy for everybody, especially for the ignorant and the poor. Some of his disciples were Brahmins. When Buddha was teaching, Sanskrit was no more the spoken language in India. It was then only in the books of the learned. Some of Buddha's Brahmin disciples wanted to translate his teachings into Sanskrit, but he distinctly told them, "I am for the poor, for the people; let me speak in the tongue of the people." And so to this day the great bulk of his teachings are in the vernacular of that day in India.
Whatever may be the position of philosophy, whatever may be the position of metaphysics, so long as there is such a thing as death in the world, so long as there is such a thing as weakness in the human heart, so long as there is a cry going out of the human heart, there shall be faith in God.
On the philosophic side, the disciples of the Great Master dashed themselves against the eternal rocks of the Vedas and could not crush them; and on the other side, they took away from the nation that eternal God to which every one, man or woman, clings so fondly. And the result was that Buddhism had to die a natural death in India. At the present day there are very few who call themselves Buddhists in India, the land where Buddhism was born.
But at the same time, Hinduism lost something--that reforming zeal, that wonderful sympathy and charity for everybody, that wonderful leaven which Buddhism had brought to the masses and which had rendered Indian society so great that a Greek historian who wrote about India of that time was led to say that no Hindu was known to tell an untruth and no Hindu woman was known to be unchaste.
Hinduism cannot live without Buddhism, nor Buddhism without Hinduism. Then realize what the separation has shown to us, that the Buddhist cannot stand without the brain and philosophy of the Hindu, nor the Hindu without the heart of the Buddhist. This separation between the Buddhists and the Hindus is the cause of the downfall of India. That is why India is populated by three hundred millions of beggars, and that is why India has been the slave of conquerors for the last thousand years. Let us then join the wonderful intellect of the Hindus with the heart, the noble soul, the wonderful humanizing power of the Buddha.|||Buddha taught love and compassion. Buddhism is about removing suffering and the causes of suffering - both one's own and that of all sentient beings. A sentient being is a being that "feels" -humans and animals. The Buddha said "stop doing unskilful actions (actions that lead to suffering - your own or other people's), do skilful actions, tame your mind, this is the teaching of the Buddha".
I can't comment on Hinduism.|||The main difference
Hinduism worships Gods (Vishnu, Shiva and Brahma)
Buddhism does not. they follow the teaching of Siddharta Gautama, a king that forsook his life of riches on a quest to find the origin of suffering.
the faiths intertwine a bit, because hinduism beleives that siddharta gautama (the buddha) is a manifestation (avatar) of Vishnu, the god of balance/restoration. buddhism finds its origins in hinduism (hinduism is older). Therefor there are also many holy scriptures that are shared between the two religions.
similar to how christianity developped from judaism.|||Hinduism differs from Christianity and other Western religions in that it does not have a single founder, a specific theological system, a single system of morality, or a central religious organization. It consists of "thousands of different religious groups that have evolved in India since 1500 BCE." 1
Hinduism has grown to become the world's third largest religion, after Christianity and Islam. It claims about 837 million followers - 13% of the world's population. 2 It is the dominant religion in India, Nepal, and among the Tamils in Sri Lanka. According to the "Yearbook of American %26amp; Canadian Churches," there are about 1.1 million Hindus in the U.S. 3 The "American Religious Identification Survey" is believed to be more accurate. 4 They estimated smaller number: 766,000 Hindus in 2001. Still, this is a very significant increase from 227,000 in 1990. Statistics Canada estimates that there are about 157,015 Hindus in Canada. 5
Hinduism is generally regarded as the world's oldest organized religion.
Most forms of Hinduism are henotheistic religions. They recognize a single deity, and view other Gods and Goddesses as manifestations or aspects of that supreme God. Henotheistic and polytheistic religions have traditionally been among the world's most religiously tolerant faiths. However, until recently, a Hindu nationalistic political party controlled the government of India. The linkage of religion, the national government, and nationalism led to a degeneration of the separation of church and state in India. This, in turn, has decreased the level of religious tolerance in that country. The escalation of anti-Christian violence was one manifestation of this linkage. With the recent change in government, the level of violence will diminish.
http://www.religioustolerance.org/hindui鈥?/a>
"Buddhism has the characteristics of what would be expected in a cosmic religion for the future: it transcends a personal God, avoids dogmas and theology; it covers both the natural %26amp; spiritual, and it is based on a religious sense aspiring from the experience of all things, natural and spiritual, as a meaningful unity" A widely cited, but apparently spurious quotation attributed to Albert Einstein 1
bullet "The greatest achievement is selflessness.
The greatest worth is self-mastery.
The greatest quality is seeking to serve others.
The greatest precept is continual awareness.
The greatest medicine is the emptiness of everything.
The greatest action is not conforming with the worlds ways.
The greatest magic is transmuting the passions.
The greatest generosity is non-attachment.
The greatest goodness is a peaceful mind.
The greatest patience is humility.
The greatest effort is not concerned with results.
The greatest meditation is a mind that lets go.
The greatest wisdom is seeing through appearances." Atisha.
bullet "If you live the sacred and despise the ordinary, you are still bobbing in the ocean of delusion." Lin-Chi.
bullet "Aware of the suffering caused by the destruction of life, I vow to cultivate compassion and learn ways to protect lives of people, animals, plants, and minerals. I am determined not to kill, not to let others kill, and not to condone any killing in the world, in my thinking, and in my way of life." Thich Nhat Hanh.
bullet "When the mind begins to become still, we then begin to truly see it. When you first try to stabilize and pacify the mind, initially it will become very busy because it's not accustomed to being still. In fact, it doesn't even necessarily want to become still, but it is essential to get a hold of the mind to recognize its nature. This practice is extremely important. ... Eventually you will find yourself in a state where your mind is clear and open all the time. It is just like when the clouds are removed from the sky and the sun can clearly be seen, shining all the time. This is coming close to the state of liberation, liberation from all traces of suffering. ... The truth of this practice is universal. It isn't necessary to call it a religion to practice it. Whether one is a Hindu or a Moslem or a Christian or a Buddhist simply doesn't matter. Anyone can practice this because this is the nature of the mind, the nature of everyone's mind. If you can get a handle on your mind, and pacify it in this way, you will definitely experience these results, and you will see them in your daily life situation. There is no need to put this into any kind of category, any kind of "ism." Venerable Gyatrul Rinpoche
http://www.religioustolerance.org/buddhi鈥?/a>|||Buddhists take the Buddha as their Authority. Hindus take their scriptures. Hindus worship gods. The Buddha's meant to have taught them.
In practical terms, Buddhists have a set of lay ethics to abide by in the five precepts. Hindus tend to not have this.
As a result Buddhists tend to be fairly upright people of principle.
At its worst, Hinduism can degrade to the worship of money, in my experience.
Hinduism never spread beyond India. Buddhism %26amp; its Enlightened Message was embraced by the whole of Asia.
Hinduism is the underdeveloped parent.
Buddhism is its perfected child.|||This site has a good article: http://www.hinduwebsite.com/hinduism/h_b鈥?/a>
Also, neither is polytheistic. The basic tenet of Hinduism is "god is one, many are his names." The different gods are all different manifestations of the same god. There is no creator-type god in Buddhism.|||I can't say anything about Hinduism because I don't know anything about it. But, I can give you some references of good Buddhist websites which you may feel free to have a look at any of them.
http://www.bswa.org/modules/mydownloads/鈥?/a>
http://www.bswa.org/
http://tenzinpalmo.com/index.php?option=鈥?/a>
http://www.jhanagrove.org.au/content/vie鈥?/a>
http://www.tara.org/jetsunma-ahkon-lhamo鈥?/a>
http://www.thubtenchodron.org/ForThoseNe鈥?/a>
http://www.mountainman.com.au/buddha/
http://dhammafriends.net/Sub%20pages/Dha鈥?/a>
http://www.buddhanet.net./e-learning/ind鈥?/a>
http://www.vipassanadhura.com/dhammatalk鈥?/a>
So, good luck! =)
May you always be well and happy...
May all beings always have happiness....|||both worship idols both preach karma both started in india
while hindus are xpected to perform various sacrifices and rituals buddhism in pure form opposes such sacrifices
with respect to both religions|||Buddhism is an off shoot of Hinduism.
Buddhism in India was almost re-absorbed into main stream Hinduism, and Buddha became a hindu god.
Both are polytheism.|||they both end in "ism"|||Dots or feathers? Just kidding!!!|||hair
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