Essay on hinduism and buddhism.
Title: Essay on hinduism and buddhism.
Category: /Society & Culture/Religion
Details: Words: 437 | Pages: 2 (approximately 235 words/page)
Essay on hinduism and buddhism.
Category: /Society & Culture/Religion
Details: Words: 437 | Pages: 2 (approximately 235 words/page)
Hinduism and Buddhism have different similarities and are in some ways connected to each other. Some of the practices of the two religions are similar in many different ways and there are several examples to show this. Hinduism first started in India around 1500 BC. The word Hindu comes from the word "sindhu" or river. The Hindu community think of themselves as "those who believe in the Vedas", or "those who follow the way or dharma
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nuns, each which has a story to explain. The Abhidharma Pitaka has seven different works, which include "detailed classifications of the psychological phenomena, metaphysical analysis, and a thesaurus of technical vocabulary."
Hinduism also has a lot of writings but the most important of all is the Vedas. The oldest is the Rig-Veda, which was made in an ancient form of the Sanskrit language in northeast India. It consists of 1028 hymns to many of the gods.