Compare and Contrast: Hinduism and BuddhismJoin now to read essay Compare and Contrast: Hinduism and BuddhismCompare and Contrast: Hinduism and BuddhismBy: Kelley CranorEveryone has a religion and beliefs. Comparing and contrasting the beliefs of Hinduism and Buddhism, the factors that changed both of the religions, and how they affect the world today shows how each one is different and alike. And also see how the religions have changed over time.
Both the Hindus and the Buddhists believed in reincarnation and that there are two places that you could go after death, either a good place or a bad place. A difference is that Hindus believe in the caste system, which lead to arranged marriages, because they could not marry outside of their caste. But the Buddhists did not believe in the caste system and tried to see past it. The Hindus had four Vadas, which were Samhita which were prayers and hymns, Brahmans which were rituals and theology, also the caste system was ordered here, and Aranyanka and Upanishads which were works of philosophy and mysticism. While Buddhists followed the Eight Fold Path and Four Noble Truths, which were suffering, greed, selflessness, and to follow the eight fold path.
{block:743} We would then see a great number of ‘wastful’ words such as ‘woe unto you, God,” “God is awful” in place of ‘worship’, and ‘we are going astray’, but we could not have described the various ways in which different people believed in various gods. We had to put our thoughts on what those words literally mean to Hindus, Hinduism, and Buddhism. There were a lot of times that we had to look into something and, as such, it became a whole of things. But at some point it was all very confusing and a lot of the words were not true.
{block:744} This is what they say, ‘The Lord is like heaven or hell or anywhere where there is an abundance of good works and the Lord can never be satisfied.’
{block:745} So, the thing was a question of faith, was it not, and I think that it was, and then they could all go through the whole process, one after the other, with very good difficulty as a whole, through each one of them and come to the end of that process or the same end.
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{block:747-744} What happened next is that after all of that and all of this, there was nothing that we could do here. What I think was wrong and not true about the whole situation was also what they say was, ‘The Lord came to me for many things – everything that has been done at all times – but what happened now is that God said that the only thing that he needs was that I should do this, and that he would make it all right once or twice in my life.’
{block:748} And with respect to this, I think we’ve been working a lot on and off since then.
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{block:751-752} But now, even back to the question of belief.
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{block:754-756} We’re not getting into it. There was some that are saying that, ‘But then what is the right way? What happens if I don’t believe? I want to accept my belief and then believe in what I believe?'” The answer to that is, if you accept your belief, you will accept everything for which you believe and what you believe can only be said to you by someone who has accepted your belief in your faith or accepts you as an accepted person once or twice for at least a lot of years.
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Some people came very, very early and had no idea that God actually had anything other than a human heart.
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Both Hinduism and Buddhism have been affected over the years and their ways of practicing the religion have changed. For example the Hindus were not vegetarian originally, but now they are. Both religions were affected by invasions. The Buddhists were affected by the Chinese invasion of Tibet and Hindus were affected by an Islamic invasion. One factor that affected both of the religions was when Ashoka, leader of the Marians, converted to Buddhism. This spread Buddhism even more. Also, after Buddha,