I am here today to tell you which religion in India should be the main religion. I think that Buddhism should be the main religion, because they think everyone is equal, everyone can believe what they want, and they don't believe in life after death. Even though that Hinduism is the main religion in India, Buddhism should be instead. Continue reading, to have your mind blown away, and to switch your beliefs if you believe in Hinduism. To begin, in Buddhism everyone is equal. Unlike in Hinduism where they have a Caste System and everyone is a different level. That is very unfair, because everyone has to do a different job. The Untouchables are the slaves and have to do all of the dirty work, and the Brahmins are right underneath the King. They still have to do work but not as much as everyone else does. The Untouchables are so low down that they aren’t even a part of the Caste System. They are lowest that any human could go. After you get underneath the …show more content…
Unlike the Egyptians that believe in life after death. The Buddhism's believe that once you die you die, and your heart doesn’t come back to life. In Hinduism, they believe in the reincarnation. Which is when you die and you have bad karma you have to go through the reincarnation stage over and over again. Which if you die by murder, or suicide, then you soul gets to roam around wherever you died for years as a ghost. Buddhists are way different than every other religion. Which is a good thing that they are different but also a bad thing, because then a lot of people might not go to the religion. I think this because everyone knows how all the other religions operate. But in Buddhism once you die you die and you just sit there. Your soul doesn’t roam around the yard, but it says in your soul. In my opinion it would be very creepy to walk past somewhere, and someone’s soul is roaming around you and touching your body or the things around
Buddhists are strong believers in Karma, the law of cause and effect. They are often morally
Buddhist considers all life to be sacred and/or spiritual in nature. They believe in reincarnation and a person’s spiritual future is based solely on one’s good or bad actions in this lifetime, also known as Karma.
Buddhists do not believe in transcendent or any other type of god or gods, the need for a personal savior, the power of prayer, eternal life in heaven or hell after death as many of the western religions do. They do believe in reincarnation: the concept that one must go through many cycles of birth, living and death. After many of these cycles, if a person releases their attachment to desire and the self they can then attain Nirvana. The teachings of Buddhism effectively deal with the question of human beings very existence and pursue the surest way toward establishing a secure basis for living. It is a practical system, which provides a means to realize a state of self-perfection. (Field)
Hinduism is a very popular religion in India, being that it could possibly be the oldest religion of all time and originated in India, the Hindu population in India is 80%. With Hinduism being such a popular religion, it competes with Christianity and Islam at 900 million followers of Hinduism worldwide (Miksic, 10). As for the popularity of Buddhism, it is not nearly as prevalent as Hinduism is, even in India. A very important attribute to Hinduism is the caste system. The caste system is comprised of five levels that each Hindu is born into and cannot switch out of or marry into another. These levels include the Brahmans, who are the highest caste and include priests, scholars and other professionals, Kshatriyas, who are typically known
As for the suffering that comes with ones death, most religions agree upon the fact that there will only be suffering if the one who is dying has indulged him/herself in the material world or sinned as some call it, without focusing much on the hereafter. The Buddhists, similar to this, believe in karma and re-birth and that one of the conditions that leads to suffering are the ‘conditions’ that are said to be responsible for rebirth (the intentions that influence actions and bring some sort of karmic fruit). They believe that by learning the karmic causal laws we might be able to avoid those karmic causal links and receive rebirth in better circumstances. I believe that the suffering of others for one person’s death comes from a very limited understanding of
Buddhism differed radically about this most fundamental concept of Hinduism. Specifically, Buddhists do not believe in the existence of a permanent reality or soul. Moreover, they deny the existence of the unchanging Atman. Instead, they believe that there undergoes continuous change about our existence.
As most people already know, the dominant religion in India is Hinduism. About eighty-four percent of the total population of India is Hindu. Throughout time and generations, Hinduism has managed to spread and grow into many different parts
Not everybody has the same beliefs about certain things. The world is a big place with billions of people and a lot of them have their own beliefs. One belief about death is the way Buddhism people see it and their belief is reincarnation. Today, Buddhism is found in Japan, Thailand, Myanmar, Laos, and China and in India, Sri Lanka Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal, Cambodia, also in the European countries and the USA. It is believed that the Buddhist population of the world is over five hundred million. Five hundred million people believe that if you die it is not the end of your life but the beginning of a new one. Your new life would be reborn in one of six realms which are: heaven, human beings, Asura, hungry ghost, animal and hell. This all depends on the karma of your life; the better your karma is, the better your reincarnation would be, and that is called the
Buddhism began in the fourth and fifth centuries before Christ by Siddhartha Gautama. The teachings of Buddha, also known as Siddhartha Gautama, are the major beliefs of Buddhism. Buddhism is a belief and religion based on an assortment of customs, principles, and practices. The name Buddha means the awakened one. Buddha’s teachings were of the termination of suffering, attaining nirvana, and absconding from the cycle of suffering and rebirth. Buddhism has spread all across Asia and throughout the world, now with between two hundred thirty million and five hundred million followers. Buddhism is largely based around the belief of Karma. Karma is the “action, seen as bringing upon oneself inevitable results, good or bad, either in this life or in a reincarnation” (Dictionary.com) or “the cosmic principle according to which each person is rewarded or punished in one incarnation according to that person’s deeds in the previous incarnation.” (Dictionary.com) In simpler words, how you live your life now determines how you will come back when your current soul expires. Buddhists live their lives in hopes of achieving to be placed in the highest state known as Heaven. The after-life stems from Karma and leads into Rebirth. Rebirth is a course of action where humans proceed within multiple lifetimes in one or more of the six states of after-life. Each lifetime begins with birth and ends with death. Buddhists believe that we should not fear death because
Also, Buddhism was a more peaceful and calm religion. Unlike in Buddhism, in Hinduism there was a caste system. It was a group from a social system. Hindus had gone by using a caste system, but it was rejected in the Buddhism community which resulted in many Buddhist being laborers and craftspeople. Hindus and Buddha both had different beliefs. For example, “Hindus saw religion as a way of liberating the soul from illusions, disappointments, and mistakes of everyday existence.” (World History Patterns of Interaction, 2005)
Within Buddhism it throw-outs the caste system that Hinduism believes in. Buddhism offers a vision of salvation based on individual effort. Also it was unusual in the eyes of Hinduism but Buddhism started to spread its teaching by sending out missionaries into neighboring Asian countries. Within Buddhism it is taught according to Hopfe that “any person of any caste or sex could find the same enlightenment he knew,” signifying an equality it seems among social class. Also Buddhism shows according to Hopfe that “women as well as men could achieve enlightenment,” so it also show the equality among sex within this
Next, Buddhism also had an impact on the society it was born into. To start out defining what Buddhism is, this particular religion focuses more on humans including finding ways to overcome human suffering (Smith, 1994). Parts of this religion include the four noble truths, including that life can go awry and that suffering is born from that, that the reason why people suffer from life is because they have selfish desires, that those desires can be overcome, and, finally, that the Eight Fold Path is the way out of suffering (Smith, 1994). To define it, the Eight Fold Path are edicts on how to live a right life and it includes ideas such as having an occupation that does not go against Buddha’s ideas and also the idea of not speaking ill about others (Smith, 1994). To get into how this particular religion shaped society, it is important to first note that Buddhism ended up existing with Hinduism in India at a certain point in time. However, now although there are Buddhists around the world, they are generally not in India (Smith, 1994). This is because Hinduism ended up absorbing some parts Buddhist ethos into their own religious structure, and some of their practices as well. To be more specific, this included changes such as decreasing the importance of the traditional caste structure as well as adding in segments of
David Peterson, professor of University of California, Irvine, “ It’s a propaganda technique used for people to believe in better tomorrow.” Apply this quote to India, Hinduism is a tool used to enforce caste system. Despite in a neoteric view, the caste system creates inequality and violates human right, we cannot deny its importance in sustaining the stability of Indian civilisation. During the long course of history, few uprises ever happened in this vast subcontinent with a diversity of races. One of the key idea of Buddhism is abrogate the caste system and view everyone equally.
Hindus believe in the four stages of life, but the Buddha do not share that believe. Whereas the Buddhists believe in the concept of Bodhisattvas, or the enlightened existence, but the Hindus do not. Buddhists must believe that the Buddha, Sangha, and Dhamma are the three most important requirements on the eightfold path, or the principal teachings of the Buddha. Hinduism has many different paths of self realization. Both religions believe in karma and reincarnation, but their terms and conditions vary, different in as many ways as they are similar. Buddhists have no priests or rituals like the Hindus do. Also, in the Buddhist religion, any follower than achieve Nirvana, but in the Hindu religion, only the Brahmins, or priests, could achieve moksha, the Hindu equivalent of Nirvana. Another large difference is that Buddhists do not believe in the Caste System, a main factor in Hinduism. This is one of their largest differences. Hinduism does not know their original creator, unlike most other religions; they’ve lost any information about their founder over the many years, whereas the Buddhists know their creator, Buddha. Buddhism is a much younger religion than Hinduism. The two religions are very much different.
Non Abrahamic traditions are different from Islam, Christianity and Judaism. Buddhism has a very special way from Abrahamic religions. Buddhism is not a religion of belief, but it is a religion of truth. Truth is the most important thing because if something is not followed by the truth, than it means it is wrong in Buddhism. Also Buddhism is not an exclusive religion. People believe in Buddha try to communicate and forgive everyone on the earth. It is because every relationship between people are the most important thing for them. Additionally, Buddhism is not asking others for their problem. They try to solve their problem themselves. Christians and Jewish ask God to help and save them and Islams ask Ala for the same thing. However, Buddhist don't do that because they believe every beginnings and ends are from themselves and they