Hinduism Vs Buddhism Essay

Hindu and Buddhist doctrine are different and alike to one another. Both religions have different beginnings, rituals, and beliefs, but they also do have similarities. Hinduism and Buddhism, while vastly different from one another, still share some common beliefs and doctrines to one another. From a doctrinal standpoint, most Hindus and Buddhists believe in very similar things.

There is not one single doctrine that all Hindus believe, but there are some doctrines that a majority of them believe. The reason being is that Hinduism does not have a founder, or even a core set of beliefs. It even has multiple ways listed to achieve salvation or liberation. One commonly believed doctrine in the Hindu religion is the law or karma. Your destiny is

One of these doctrines Buddha taught is that our repeated existence is suffering, and that everything is impermanent. Even satisfaction is impermanent, and the disappearance of satisfaction is painful. Buddha taught that there are may heavens, hells, and purgatories that we are sent to after death according to our works of our life, until our karma – our good and bad deeds – are equaled out. Then we are sent back to this world as any living creature, still according to our deeds in our past life. Buddha does teach that we can change our own destiny away from our past life’s decisions, and that path is described as his four truths. The four truths Buddha taught are that there is suffering, that this suffering is from our existence, our suffering can be eliminated, and the way to end suffering is the noble eightfold path. The noble eightfold path is placed into in three categories: trust (having the right belief and attitude), ethical conduct (having the right speech, bodily action, and livelihood), and meditation (the right effort, self-awareness, and meditation). The path he taught is the middle, centered between two extremes, self-indulgence and self-mortification. Successfully ending this path is not the end of your existence, but it is not a continuation of it either, it is an escape from suffering, or nirvana