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BUDDHISM vs. HINDUISM
Describe essential teachings Buddha. How Buddhism modify Hinduism? How explain appeal Buddhism? Reference
Describe the essential teachings of Buddha. How did Buddhism modify Hinduism? How can we explain the appeal of Buddhism?
Both Buddhism and Hinduism share many similar features. Both possess the doctrine of karma, or the notion that one's actions in this life affect what transpires later on. However, while Hinduism preaches the doctrine of anatma, or self, Buddhism preaches the doctrine of non-self (Difference between Buddhism and Hinduism, 2012, difference between.net). The first noble truth of Buddhism is that there is suffering and the second noble truth of the Buddha is that the cause of suffering is our delusion that we possess a self. For Hindus, the self is a static, unchanging and eternal thing. For Buddhism, what we believe to be the self is merely a conglomeration of the five aggregates: matter, sensation, perception, thought and consciousness (Five aggregates, 2012, Buddhism Teacher). When we cease to be, the five aggregates merely dissipate into nothingness and the energy they generate becomes more aspects of...
Generating bad karma in one life results reaping the effects of that bad karma later on in later incarnations. This means that a bad fate is not the result of an unjust society, but is rather one's own 'fault.' This perception of fate being deserved became the justification of the caste system within India. In Buddhism, however, there is no soul, thus no soul to be punished by having a bad fate. Although some Buddhist folklore, mainly in the Mahayana tradition did chronicle the many prior incarnations of the Buddha and other sages, this view of reincarnation is presented in a less punitive fashion, and more as proof of the Buddha's goodness (Eng 2006).
Buddhism is intensely democratic spirit in its belief that everyone who was open to the third noble truth (there is an end of suffering) and the fourth noble truth (the cure for suffering is the eightfold path of the Buddha) could attain Enlightenment (O'Brien 2012). This was attractive to those whose lives were limited by the constricting impulses of the Indian caste system. The main…
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Eng, Tan Swee. (2006). Differences between Mahayana and Theravada Buddhism. A Basic
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