De Paz, Pamela Grace A.
XI-HUMSS-A
COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS
HINDUISM AND BUDDHISM
BUDDHISM
Buddhism began in India,
nearly 2,600 years ago
ORIGIN with a man, Siddhartha
Gautama, who did
exactly that: looked deep
into himself.The teaching
of the historical
Shakyamuni Buddha
spread throughout India,
and then across the Asian
continent over the course
of these past 2,600 years.
Buddhism, a religion that
more than 300 million
people currently practice,
was founded in
northeastern India by
Prince Siddhartha in the
sixth century B.C. Having
achieved enlightenment,
he became known as
Shakyamuni and
preached a path of
salvation to his followers.
Buddhism denies a blend the two theories,
supreme deity. Its earliest
form was based on
Shakyamuni's teaching
and moral code and
stressed that everyone,
through concerted
individual effort and
action, could achieve
enlightenment. This form
of Buddhism—called
Hinayana or, in the Pali
tradition, Theravada (the
HINDUISM
Hinduism's early history is
the subject of much
debate for a number of
reasons. At one time, it
was believed that the
basic tenets of Hinduism
were brought to India by
the Aryans who invaded
the Indus Valley
civilization and settled
along the banks of the
Indus river about 1600
BCE. However, this theory
is now thought to be
flawed, and many
scholars believe that the
principles of Hinduism
evolved within the groups
of people living in the
Indus Valley region since
well before the Iron Age--
the first artifacts of which
date to sometime before
2000 BCE. Other scholars
believing that the core
tenets of Hinduism
evolved from indigenous
rituals and practices, but
were likely influenced by
outside sources. 3000-
1600 BCE: The earliest of
Hindu practices form their
roots with the rise of the
Indus Valley civilization in
northern Indian sub-
continent around 2500
 Way of the Elders)—is
practiced in most of
mainland Southeast Asia.
The sect requires disciples
to become monks and
concentrate solely on
reaching nirvana, the
ultimate state of bliss that
transcends suffering.
The precepts are
commitments to abstain
MORALITY from killing living beings,
stealing, sexual
misconduct, lying and
intoxication. Within the
Buddhist doctrine, they
are meant to develop
mind and character to
make progress on the
path to enlightenment.
One of the fundamental
Buddhist principles of
moral thought and action
is karma. The Buddha's
Four Noble Truths are
another guiding principle
of moral thought and
action, particularly as
expressed in the fourth
truth, the Eightfold Path.
The motivation for
following the Four Noble
Truths is not to "be good"
per se, but to facilitate the
realization the Buddhists
call enlightenment. The
BCE. Hinduism is a
collective term applied to
the many philosophical
and religious traditions
native to India. Hinduism
has neither a specific
moment of origin nor a
specific founder. Rather,
the tradition understands
itself to be timeless,
having always existed.
Indeed, its collection of
sacred texts is known, as a
whole, as Sanatana
Dharma, "The Eternal
Teaching." It is thus a
complex tradition that
encompasses numerous
interrelated religious
doctrines and practices
that have some common
characteristics but which
lack any unified system of
beliefs and practices.
What you call morality in
Hinduism is actually some
empirical observations in
diverse arenas of life, and
these observations have
the back up of
accumulated wisdom
from Seers, sages, Yogis,
Intellectuals etc. who had
been appearing here
since aeons. That is why
we don’t have rigid
morality.
•There are texts that
compare abortion to the
killing of a priest
• Others say that abortion
is a worse sin than killing
one's parents
• Hindus see producing
offspring as a public duty,
rather than an individual
expression of choice
• One of the Hinduism
core values is the belief
that every person is
Divine, regardless of their
 English translation of the
terms within the path does
nothing to dispel the
impression that the
Eightfold Path is a series of
moral injunctions — "right
effort," "right livelihood,"
etc. — as the term "right"
in English implies "correct."
A more accurate
translation for "right" in this
case might be "skillful."
The main purpose of
Buddhism is to end the
PURPOSE suffering. Buddha said, to
end the suffering there is
no other way but to avoid
being born. Not in any
form. ( In Buddha's
teachings he teaches, we
do not only have human
life. Buddhism is about the
complete annihilation of
self, mind, entity or simply
existence. Therefore
Buddhism's major goal is
to prepare one's mind to
give up everything ; even
itself. Therefore in
Buddhism life has no such
'purpose' but it's just a
result of your desire to feel
things, to exist. "The
purposes of Buddhism"
means understanding
Buddhism's direction.
What we call Buddhism is
the teachings of
Shakyamuni Buddha.
Buddhism is not a holds that they are in fact
revelatory religion; it is
based entirely on what
the Buddha taught as a
result of his great
enlightenment. So
Buddhism is based not on
some idea of divinity but
on the enlightenment
experience of
attributes; so, it is much
easier for someone of
Hindu origin to accept the
variety in sexual
orientation
• Some people even
point out that an LGBT
person who is selfless and
has mastered their
impulses (sexual or not) is
closer to Moksha (the
release in life and death
cycle) then a non-LGBT
person who isn’t
The purpose of Hinduism
is to connect you with this
world, yourself and with
gods, ultimately with
God. It lays out a
paradigm you can use
for achieving these
purposes. The purpose of
Hinduism is to guide the
follower on his/her
journey towards
understanding this world,
his/her true self, God,
afterlife, and his/her
relationship to it all. The
purpose also is to guide
the follower through
his/her life. Hinduism
articulates several
different, overlapping
paths, or margas for
humans to follow.
Although these paths
may seem to be
inconsistent, and even
contradictory, fully
developed Hinduism
three different, and
sometimes overlapping,
means to fulfill the same
religious goal. The Path of
Desire, Pleasure, Worldly
Success, The Path of
Renunciation, Duty,
Liberation. They observed
both the unity and
 Shakyamuni Buddha, the diversity in the
central event in Buddhist manifestation of the
history. The Buddha world. They realized that
himself is not special. He the creation of God was
attained his true self, built on the principle of
which means he cooperation and service
completely understood and the purpose of each
himself and this world. So component of creation
we say Buddha is mind, and each entity of
mind is Buddha. If you creation was to support
completely understand creation by doing its
yourself, completely part.While intelligence is
attain your true self, you useful to cultivate
too become a Buddha. wisdom, it can also
The experience of the become a vulnerability if
Buddha says that it is human beings succumb
possible for each one of to selfishness and evil
us to have the same qualities. It is for the same
enlightenment reason they repeatedly
experience and to emphasize the need to
become Buddhas overcome desires and
ourselves. This means it is cultivate detachment.
possible for each one of
us to completely
understand ourselves,
attain correct way and
correct life.
Buddhism is sharing the The destiny of Hinduism is
same fate as other to lead a life according to
DESTINY religions - there are your Dharma. Your
endless divisions and Dharma is your purpose of
splinter groups that life. To find your purpose in
formed, each defending this life there are rules set
their own interpretations. in Hinduism. Once you
The teachings also find that purpose then
became ritualistic and you have to fulfill that
petrified over time. purpose in this life time.
Followers have become Hinduism teaches you the
defensive and don’t way to lead your life and
accept anything outside how to prepare for what
of their beliefs. In happens after your death.
Buddhism, human destiny since we are part and
is about which path a parcel of the almighty
Buddhist will take to power whom we refer to
achieve enlightenment as God our main goal is to
and understand the go back to God and
Buddha's Dhamma. The attain liberation. If we are
Hinayana believe that not liberated we will keep
each person is responsible coming back to earth
for his own fate. Along (reincarnation). There is a
with these doctrines there destiny or karmic pattern
 are other Buddhist beliefs
like 'Zen Buddhism' from
Japan and the 'Hindu
Tantric Buddhism' from
Tibet. Fate or destiny is
often regarded as the
“course that life takes”
and karma is one of the
factors that influence this
course. People often
believe that fate is pre-
destined and nothing can
be changed.
In ancient India the
position of women does
VIEWS ON not appear to have been
WOMEN a very happy one.
Generally women seem
to have been looked
upon as being inferior to
men. And, at times they
were considered as being
on the same level as the
Sudras, the lowest of the
four castes. Their freedom
was extremely limited. The
general view appears to
be that they had to be
under the care of parents
in their childhood, under
the protection of
husbands in their youth;
and in their old age they
had to be under the
control of their sons.
Therefore, it was thought
that they do not deserve
any freedom. Their main
role was considered to be
that of housewives,
managing the affairs in
the house according to
the wishes of their
husbands. Women did not
have educational
freedom. A woman was
considered a burden on
the family because the
males had to bear the
responsibility of looking
after her. Buddhist
to our lives. Whatever
exists in the realm of time
must follow the rhythms of
time and the law of cause
and effect. The present
fruit must be of the same
nature as the previous
seed. Whatever we are in
body and mind must be
the result of our previous
physical and mental
patterns. This destiny for
some people is very fixed.
Women have fought for
their status and role in
communities, religions,
and the nation for years.
And women in Hinduism
are no different. Women
traditionally would live the
life of a mother and a wife
following the footsteps of
their ancestors. Women’s
roles were laid out in
Hindu law books such as
the Dharma-Sastras,
however basic rules in the
Laws of Manu (200 C.E.)
lays out how a women or
wife should behave in the
household and towards
her husband.
Nevertheless women’s
roles have evolved over
time and women are
going against the social
norm of their tradition and
even their way of life.
According to Hinduism,
the female archetype
was created by Brahman
to project the
fundamental duality in
creation between God
and his materiality and
provide assistance and
company to men to
perform obligatory duties
and facilitate
procreation, preservation
and continuation of
women, including nuns,
have faced harsh
discrimination by Buddhist
institutions in Asia for
centuries. There is gender
inequality in most of the
world's religions, of course,
but that's no excuse.
family lineages. In other
words, the very existence
of women is concomitant
to Dharma and
secondary to men in the
order of things upon earth