Comparing Hinduism and Buddhism: Beliefs, Founders, and Differences, Schemes and Mind Maps of Social Sciences

Download Comparing Hinduism and Buddhism: Beliefs, Founders, and Differences and more Schemes and Mind Maps Social Sciences in PDF only on Docsity! Hinduism and Buddhism AP World History Bartlett High School Mr. Pahl Hinduism No single founder No single sacred text. Grew out of various groups in India: The Aryans added their religious beliefs to those of the Indus Valley. Our of all its complexity, though, there are certain basic beliefs… More Hindu Beliefs… All existence is ranked: Brahman, humans, animals, plants, things. To help escape the wheel of fate, dharma, religious duties, can help one acquire merit for the next life. Vedas and Upanishads are sacred texts. The BhagavadGita spells out many ethical ideas. Ahimsa is another key principle of Hinduism; nonviolence. Buddha Gautama Buddha, from the foothills of the Himalayas, founded a new religion. Gautama born about 566 BC He saw for the first time in his protected environment, a sick person, an older person, and a dead person. Gautama left a happy married life to discover the realm of life “where there is neither suffering or death.” Buddha…  He meditated and fasted. For 48 days he meditated in one place. He believed he understood the cure for suffering and sorrow; he was now Buddha.  The Four Noble Truths are the heart of Buddhism: 1. All life is full of suffering, pain and sorrow. 2. The cause of suffering is the desire for things that are really illusions, such as riches, power and long life. 3. The only cure for suffering is to overcome desire. 4. The way to overcome desire is to follow the Eightfold Path PENGUIN(@cLassics BUDDHIST SCRIPTURES  ro. Better for you to swallow a ball of iron red-hot and flaming with fire, Than on the alms of the people to live, while immoral, indul- gent, intemperate. If it’s suffering you fear, if it’s suffering you dislike, Just do no evil deeds at all — for all to see or secretly. Even a flight in the air cannot free you from suffering, After the deed which is evil has once been committed. Wot in the sky nor in the ocean’s middle, Nor if you were to hide in cracks in mountains, Can there be found on this wide earth a corner Where karma does not catch up with the culprit. . But if you see the evil others do, and if you feel you disapprove, Be careful not to do likewise, for people’s deeds remain with them. Those who cheat in business deals, those who act against the Dharma, Those who swindle, those who trick ~ not only harm _ their fellow-men, They hurl themselves into a gorge, for people’s deeds remain with them. - Whatever deeds a man may do, be they delightful, be they bad, They make a heritage for him; deeds do not vanish without trace. . A man will steal while profit seems to lie that way. Then others steal from him, and so the thief by thieving is undone. The fool, while sinning, thinks and hopes, “This never will catch up with me’. Wait till you’re in the other world, and there the fate of sinners learn! ee Dt Re lal: oe nn ae ee ie ee a ee a ee i oe ee eee  Hinduism and Buddhism Compared Similarities Differences Hinduism and Buddhism Karma Dharma Moksha Reincarnation Buddhism rejects the priests of Hinduism, the formal rituals, and the caste system. Buddha urged people to seek enlightenment through meditation