Hinduism And Buddhism

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He soon gave up this way of thinking and focused on �a middle path between the life of indulgence and that of self-denial.� After a time of great inner struggle, he began to wander to different places and preach and organized a monastic community know as the sangha.
The Buddha started the movement for all different peoples and denied that a person�s spiritual worth is a matter of birth. The Buddha left no written word. His ideas have been put into writings though but his followers. The Cannon for the Buddhist religion is known as the Tripitaka, or Three Baskets, because is has three writings. These are the Sutra Pitaka, which is a collection of discourses, the Vinaya Pitaka, which is the code of the monastic discipline, and the Abhidharma Pitaka, which contains all different philosophical, psychological, and doctrinal discussions and different classifications.
The Sutra Pitaka is made up of dialogues between the Buddha and his people and consists of five different ...

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what the people do instead of what they think. Few beliefs are shared by all Hindus, but some are reverence for Brahmans and cows, abstention from meat, especially beef, and marriage within the caste in the hope of producing male heirs. Some others are that most Hindus chant the gayatri hymn to the sun at dawn. Most Hindus worship Shiva, Vishnu or the goddess, Devi as well as hundreds of smaller deities depending on the village one lives in or even a particular family.
The Buddhists worship the Buddha and follow the four noble truths. These are (1) Life is suffering; meaning that human existence is really painful from the minute of birth to the time of death. (2) All suffering is ...

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