Essay on Buddhism and Hinduism

Buddhism and Hinduism are two religions in some ways parallel each other but they differ in theory and practice in many other cases. I would like to note that Vedic religions, Buddhism and Jainism share a regional culture located around the northeastern Indian, what is now Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Nepal.

Considering the similarities, Karma Sanskrit comes from the root “doing”, which is a word of ancient origin that refers to actions or activities and the results flowing from them. Normally, it is seen as a term denoting the entire cycle of cause and effect as also described in Western philosophies. Karma is a central idea of the Buddhist teachings, which reinterpret aspects of pre-Buddhist concept of karma, doing away with the idea of a perfect moral equilibrium present in some versions of those teachings.

It should be noted that some aspects of the Buddhist teachings of karma have been subtracted from the first Brahmanical teachings. In India, the concept of reincarnation was written first in the Upanishads (a few centuries before the Common Era), the first religious and philosophical texts were written in Sanskrit.

The idea that the soul (or any living being, including animals and plants) is reincarnated, is closely linked to the idea of karma and the cycle of death and rebirth governed by Karma known as Samsara, and its circle in Buddhism teaches reincarnation cycle.

I would like to say that Buddha denies that men have eternal and unchanging things. Buddhists believe that a newborn child may be the reincarnation of a teacher who has come high on their way to nirvana and is dead before you. All in all, there are many ideas and similarities between the two religions Buddhism and Hinduism, as there are principles of the facts that life is sacred and important, and that spiritual health is a key to a happy life.