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COMPARING THE SCHOOLS OF THOUGHT IN EARLY CHINA AND INDIA When one looks at the Indian and the Chinese civilizations, they are very similar but have different dispositions. It is what has made them alike but unlike spontaneously. The implication being that it would be imperative to start having an analysis of these two societies from various shared ideologies, while still not overlooking that the ideology could be similar but expressed differently. The common areas that the Chinese and the Indian culture that is common and different at the same time are religion, art, economics, politics and the social structures of all these societies. The theme of religion is one that was very vital in both the Chinese and Indian culture. The most common religion that was practiced in China was Confucianism, Legalism, and Taoism. When one comes to compare this to the Indian society, the main religion practices were Buddhism and Hinduism. In both societies, it was the religious teachers who invented these religions
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Upon their arrival in India, they had a religion that was known as Vedic religion, and it was from this religion that the Vedas books would be invented from. It was in the search for enlightenment that Siddhartha Gautama would arise, also known as Buddha. in his preaching he called on the people to have a stoic life, to be led by morality and most importantly, a need to always meditate, it was from these teachings that the practice of Buddhism would develop, around at the 500Bc. Jainism would arise from the teachings that all human suffering came from the mixing of the needs of the soul to those of the body (Eisenstadt, 78-98). As such, they called for a life of fastening and sexual purity, as a way of separating these competing needs. It was what would later be introduced to