What do buddhism and hinduism have in common?
The Buddha was a Hindu priest, and some of the teachings are from Hinduism. However historically, no war has been fought over the Buddhist religion. The author of these twelve principles is Mr. Christmas Humphreys, founder and president of the Buddhist Society of London. They express a common ground for all schools of Buddhism and have been approved by the leading sects throughout the world as a basis for World Buddhism. (Editor’s note: The author’s original wording, punctuation and spelling have been preserved. The use of the words “man,” “men” and masculine pronouns is meant to include persons of both sexes and is indicative of the author’s historical and cultural milieu and not meant to portray Buddhism as a male-only pursuit. Additionally, the reader may find it helpful to mentally substitute the word “liberation” or “enlightenment” for “salvation” and “harmonious” or “appropriate” wherever the word “right” or “perfect” appears in the text.) Self-salvation is for any man the immedi
What follows are, of course, purely my opinions and are very simplified (this is Yahoo! Answers after all) . . . The truth is these two religions, while they look very different on the surface, are really almost identical in their core beliefs, so much so that many modern day Buddhist and Hindus have deep respect for the other religion. Ramakrishna believed the Buddha was an Avatar and many Buddhist believe the varied saints of Hinduism are themselves great spiritual beings. The fundamental belief that unites Buddhism and Hinduism — and indeed seperates them from many of the rest of the world’s religions — is the idea that spiritual perfection, so to speak, is available to every and all human beings . . . that anyone can attain it. In Western religions, spiritual perfection is reserved for God only, Jesus in the case of Christianity . . . but in Hinduism and Buddhism it is felt that spiritual enlightenment can be achieved by anyone. Consequently, there are always plenty of living sai
On page #48 in the Zhuan Falun Lecture on the web: “Before it vanished, Buddhism went through a number of reforms, and in the end it incorporated things from Brahmanism and formed a religion that’s found in India today, called Hinduism. It no longer worships any Buddhas, it worships some other things instead, and it no longer believes in Shakyamuni. That’s how it is now.” Recently the Buddhist belief is making a come back in India. Many Buddhists and people have taken up the practice of Falun Gong. Many schools in India are incorporating the scripture titled, “Buddha Law”, into textbooks, teaching Falun Gong meditation and exercises in PE classes. http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/… http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/… Falun Gong is a unique Buddhist School, teaching an ancient practice for the m
