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Hinduism and buddhism
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Vedas and Upanishads | Religious Hinduism readings |
| Karma | If you do good things in this life you will get a higher status in your next life, but if you do bad things in this life you will get a lower status in your next life |
| Dharma | Hinduism-your obligation based on your social class Buddhism-a good dead |
| Samsara | the life cycle of life, death, and rebirth |
| Moksha | the end of samsara (full understanding of brahman) |
| Brahman | a universal being |
| Atman | your soul (everyone's Atman is connected to Brahman) |
| Varna system | the social class system |
| The life of the Buddha (Siddhartha Gautama) | A person of high power (Siddhartha Gautama) who is protected from the world because of a soothsayer saying that he will be a holy man or a great king, scared the parents shielded him from the world to protect him from becoming a holy man. |
| The life of the Buddha (Siddhartha Gautama) | One day he goes down to the lesser people of the varna system and sees how bad the have it down there, he then gives up all his worldly possessions and meditates for over 49 days, he then created the Buddha community free from the varna system. |
| Four noble truths | how to understand and end/deal with suffering |
| Eightfold path | mental discipline/ the core guide to end suffering |
| Meditation | an action to clear one's mind in a cross legged position |
| Nirvana | the ultimate goal for buddhists/ end of all suffering |
| Monks | people who follow the eightfold path fully and give up all their worldly possessions, shave there head and live in a monastery |
| Things in Hinduism that are not in Buddhism | ultimate goal=reaching moksha sacred texts=vedas and upanishads varna system atman |
| Things in Buddhism that are not in Hinduism | ultimate goal=moksha no varna all equal eightfold path |
| Both | karma samsara dharma |