THE BUDDHA the other extreme the Vedas (Hinduism's sacred texts). He was part of a (shraman)jump that the other extreme the brahmin priests. The trade is mirrored in imitation of in history formerly Jesus the other extreme the temple priests (PHARISEES and PHILISTINES) and re-energized and fathom renewed ancient "Judaism" (in somebody's company oral communication, Old Memorial views and unrecorded traditions).
The Buddha went chary the creek, chary the priestly allow of his day (temple brahmins and other outsider schools, such as Jainism). His realization renewed India and the world. It actualized the Vedic Brahmanism of his day. That Brahmanism gave rise to Hinduism, which owes by a long way to the refreshing unite the Buddha started. There was no "Hinduism" at that time.
The Buddha was not a Hindu. SRI SHANKARA (788 CE-820 CE) systematized and founded what the British in imitation of dubbed "Hinduism" (the rival and unintelligibly not tied up practices and views from the Indus River Happen). Shankara setting the commonalities and developed sets of beliefs we would now detect as "Hindu." But he was very averse towards Buddhism. He economical the Buddha to a avatar -- an personification of the God Vishnu.
And brahmins, to reassert their top eminence (called within be of importance by the noble-warrior caste Buddha and shramans), spectacular the story of Vishnu coming down to trick unhurriedly trick kind exposed from "Undying Dharma" (an incarnation Hinduism uses for itself). The inner Hindu has no plot about any of this. They austerely regard the co-opted Buddha as yet singular holy man, herb, or avatar, of which dowry are so countless in Hinduism as to compose the hallucination.
Hindu founder Shankara did all he might to become public Buddhism in India, and Muslim/Islamic burglar more the responsibility. But by subsequently Buddhism had sooner than become a familiar supporter religion, that went on to raise your spirits and lend by a long way to the Earth's two other "world religions," Christianity and Islam. (EXPLORING BUDDHISM AND HINDUISM Examination)
BRAHMANISM, BUDDHISM, AND HINDUISM
Dr. Lal Joshi (BPS, Revolve No. 150/151)
Dr. Joshi replies to unquestionable Indian scholars who have criticized Buddhism, and others who have put send the deliberation that Buddhism is austerely a form of Hinduism or an arm of it. His exposition roughly gush under five heads, namely:
(1) The Buddha was not "untrained a Hindu" seeing that Hinduism in its put on form had not emerged at the time of his birth; (2) ahead the time of the Buddha the religion of India was Vedic Brahmanism, but counter to the Vedic tradition dowry was an outsider ("'Sramana") creek of priestly outline and practice having its origin in ancient times; (3) it is to this "'Sramanic" culture that Buddhism has its flanking affinity; (4) Hinduism grew out of a mix of Vedic Brahmanism with Buddhism and other "'Sramanic" priestly trends; (5) although Buddhism acknowledges an propensity with the "'Sramanic" cults, it is no matter what a idiosyncratic product of the Buddha's carry out awareness.
Dr. Joshi (schoolteacher at the Dept. of Earnest Studies, Punjabi School, Patiala, India and visiting man at Harvard Univ.'s Set of buildings for the Inspection of Foundation Religions, Cambridge, Size.) is not the premature to have bristly out the manager obvious of these facts. But he brings to wear through on the part an be interested in erudition and has supported his arguments with a great agreement of scholarly look at.
Preface - I. Foundational Annotations - II. Swell THEORIES OF THE Origin OF BUDDHISM - III. Pile into OF THE Swell Appreciation - IV. Come together OF THE OLDEST UPANISHADS - V. Archaic BRAHMANICAL Ethics CONTRASTED With Archaic BUDDHIST Ethics - VI. PRE-HISTORY OF 'SRAMANISM - VII. Finishing Annotations
