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Is there a connection between Lord Buddha & Hinduism?
Prior to the Buddha (born 563 or 480 BCE), was the historical Vedic religion (1750 - 500 BCE), followed by the shramanic movement (500 - 200 BCE), and the beginnings of the Upanishadic movement within ...
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Is there a connection between Lord Buddha & Hinduism?
Of course there is connection between Lord Buddha and Hinduism! Lord Buddha grew up studying many teachings of Hinduism as well as Jainism. But he was not satisfied with the answers he was getting. He ...
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Why did Buddha praise the vedic Agnihotra as the foremost sacrifice?
Your quoted text is from M.N. Selasutta, that buddha taught to selabrahmaṇa:
aggihuttamukhā yaññā sāvittī chandaso mukham.
Sacrifices have the agnihotra as foremost; of meter the foremost is ...
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Have any Buddhist thinkers responded to the critique of the Brahma Sutras?
I think Nagarjuna's Mulamadhyamakakarika is the work you are looking for. Just like Brahma-sutras does not mention specific Buddhist sutras it debates with, Mulamadhyamakakarika does not mention ...
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Can one follow Hinduism and Buddhism at the same time?
In Buddhism the main teachings you have to have faith in is the 8 Fold Path divided into 3 trainings, which is to develop higher virtue, higher mind and higher wisdom.
No religion is incompatible ...
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The Oldest Traditional Buddhist Lineage?
Every "official" Chan/Zen master (that is, a master recognized and authorized by an older master) keeps a list of his ancestral teachers going back all the way to the Buddha Shakyamuni. I have such ...
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Did Buddhism oppose Vedic religion?
From my reading it appears he didn't oppose Vedic religion though he dismissed the Brahmins of his times as being false Brahmins.
In the brāhmaṇavagga of the aṅguttara nikāya 5. 20, and the Dhp. 26 ...
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Is Buddhism just Hinduism stripped for export?
Though Hinduism (as we call it today) and Buddhism originated in India, they are different.
I am from India and a Hindu Brahmin by birth..
The Answer to the question "Is Buddhism just Hinduism ...
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Can one follow Hinduism and Buddhism at the same time?
Can one follow Hinduism and Buddhism at the same time?
Theravāda branch of Buddhism (in its truest sense) is in stark contrast with Hinduism, but it may not be so for the other branches of Buddhism. ...
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How do I refute the claim that the Buddha was actually preaching Vedanta?
This is a modified version of the answer that I posted on Hinduism.SE comparing the Buddhist Madhyamaka (by Nagarjuna) and the Hindu Advaita Vedanta (by Adi Shankara). Usually, the emptiness in ...
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Did buddha said anything about upanishad?
Only the three Vedas (presumably Rg, Yajur and Sama Veda) are mentioned in the Pali suttas (the discourses of the Buddha). No other Hindu texts are mentioned.
It so happened that a
brahman student ...
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Did the Buddha make any reference to Krishna and Gita?
The dates given in Wikipedia's Bhagavad Gita article, for example,
Professor Jeaneane Fowler, in her commentary on the Gita, considers second century BCE to be the likely date of composition.
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When is an ideology a religion and not just philosophy, or a way of living?
Buddhism is not ideology, not religion, not philosophy and not even a way of life.
Instead, Buddhism is a methodology that ends suffering & problems.
In MN 29, while Buddhism is described as ...
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Where does Buddha mention about Sanatana dharma (Hinduism)?
sanantana
adjective
primeval; old; eternal
Doing a quick search, the Pali word 'sanantana' appears to be found rarely in the Pali suttas.
Apart from being used in references to the Vedic ...
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Someone told me Buddha copied almost everything from Brahmanism, how accurate is that?
Dyana meditation is basically keeping your focus on one object. Various forms of it can be found in many religions. There's nothing exceptional about it. Even christians/muslims praying to a God is a ...
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Someone told me Buddha copied almost everything from Brahmanism, how accurate is that?
Prior to the Buddha (born 563 or 480 BCE), was the historical Vedic religion (1750 - 500 BCE), followed by the shramanic movement (500 - 200 BCE), and the beginnings of the Upanishadic movement within ...
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What is the opinion of Buddhism on the caste system and untouchability of Hinduism?
Actually, Gautama Buddha was not against the caste system in mainstream non-Buddhist Indian society however he did emphasize social status ('caste'/'jati') was dependent upon here-&-now kamma ...
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Buddha's relation to Hinduism
'Hinduism' did not exist when the Buddha was alive, as follows from Wikipedia:
This "Hindu synthesis" started to develop between 500 BCE and 300
CE, after the end of the Vedic period (1500 to 500 ...
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Ṛta, ritual and Buddhism
Clinging to rites and rituals
It is mis-belief in something miracle and shortcut. It is mis-belief in worshipping the creator or god can bring the worshipper's liberation/salvation. It is something ...
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Have any Buddhist thinkers responded to the critique of the Brahma Sutras?
Here is the list of the Buddhist and Hindu Acaryas in chronological order based on their dates and who critiqued whom.
Nāgārjuna(1st C.E) critiqued by Vātsyāyana (400 C.E)
Vātsyāyana critiqued by ...
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Did the Buddha make any reference to Krishna and Gita?
In fact, the Buddha's karma philosophy and the notion of 'skillful karma' ( performing actions as duty without getting attached to it) seem to be too close to Krishna's karma yoga philosophy to find ...
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Is there a connection between Lord Buddha & Hinduism?
When Gotama was alive, Hinduism did not even exist. The religion of the Brahmans at that time is best called Brahmanism. The Pali suttas show the Buddha knew about the Four Vedas of Brahmanism. Both ...
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Is there a connection between Lord Buddha & Hinduism?
There is no connection between Buddha and hinduism. Buddha the awaken and intelligent had denied Vedas and the brahmanas which were the main religious books of Hindus saying that it was not based on ...
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Is Buddhism just Hinduism stripped for export?
I noticed from the Wikipedia article about Alan Watts,
He chose Buddhism, and sought membership in the London Buddhist Lodge, which had been established by Theosophists, and was now run by the ...
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In what ways are the Advaita concept of 'Nirguna Brahman' and the Buddhist concept of Buddha Nature similar and different?
One short paper that compares and contrasts Vedanta and Buddhism is Acharya Mahayogi Sridhar Rana Rinpoche's essay "Madhyamika Buddhism vis-à-vis Hindu Vedanta".
When we compare the Advaita ...
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Did Gautama Buddha endorse the caste system?
Did Gautama Buddha endorse the caste system?
Of course not. There's a whole chapter in the Dhammapada where it shows what qualifies one as a brahman. None of them use high birth or high caste as the ...
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What puts together composites according to Buddhism?
The word 'sankhara' has many different meanings. It can mean:
"conditioned thing' (something made from causes & conditions; AN 3.134; Dhp 277; SN 22.90)
"conditioner' (a condition that conditions/...
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What is the difference between Buddhism, Hinduism and Solipsism?
Solipsism is not a religion or philosophy. It's just a speculative idea: "hmm how do we know the world we experience actually exists? What if our senses and minds are fooling us and nothing else ...
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