why did siddhartha gautama develop buddism from hinduism?

Question

why did he develop buddhism instead of being hindu?

Answer 1

The fact is hinduism came only after the Buddha. During the Buddha's time, there is this practice called Brahminism, which practiced sacrifices and rituals. Buddha rebelled against this meaningless practices, which is why there is a strong resistance from the Brahmins.

The Buddha has no teacher. It takes so many life cycles, called "aeons": before he attained Buddhahood. He perfected his qualities over many world cycles before he finally attained enlightenment. To come across a Buddha is very rare. 2600 years after Mahaparrinibbana, we can still listen to pure Buddha teachings. Buddha never called his teachings as Buddhism but Dhamma or nature's law.

The caste system is incorporated by the Brahmin into the Hindu religion to proctect their interest. Till today, it is strong in India. The principles of reincarnation and karma goes against the caste system. Whether you will lead an easier or tough life depends on your previous life deeds. It is not a birth right . If you are reborn into a Brahmin class with luxury and wealth, it does not guarantee a repeat in the next life, if you have misbehaved in this life. But the Brahmins, which is the forerunner of the Hindu religion believes that they will always be reborn as Brahmin. When they heard on Buddha's teaching on karma, of course, they were not pleased and rejected it straightaway.

The last night before enlightenment, the Buddha saw clearly the impact of karma and rebirth in this world of suffering (or samsara). His last words before entering nibbana is to urge all beings to strive harder to attain the path of enlightenment so that they would not be anymore rebirth. The end of all suffering is to enter the deathless realm of Nibbanna.

Answer 2

At that time there were many other religions not just Hinduism but Siddhartha Gautama was not satisfied with any. He tried Jainism, advanced yoga practices and even fasted as an acetic before developing Buddhism as he felt no religion of the time went far enough (none brought freedom from suffering). His quest for Freedom was inspired by the four passing sights - an old man, a sick man, a corpse and a brahmin - seeing that through meditation and other practices one could achieve limited understanding of the first three sights he decided to perfect what he had leaned and teach it to others that they might achieve enlightenment (freedom from craving and suffering caused by craving)

Answer 3

He didn't. Hinduism didn't exist at the time, though what is called Brahamism was in its early development, along with the infamous caste system. The teachings of the Buddha have no "creator god" and no atman (soul) as in Hinduism. The teachings center around no soul, or "anatta" to use the Pali term. They are quite different, but later Hinduism incorporated the Buddha as one of the reincarnations of Vishnu, thus aborbing aspects of Buddhism though how can one absorb teachings that run counter to its core? Not possible. Only the figure of the Buddha was taken.

Answer 4

Because he discovered Nirvaana, which was not known to the world prior to His arrival.

Many speculated on it, but it had not been realised.

His Dhamma: what stress is, what causes it, where it ends, and how it's brought about, is deemed too subtle & deep to be realised easily outside the Dispensation of a Fully Enlightened One.

This 'Truth', can be lost to the world, and has been in the past.

It's rediscovered by such 'Spiritual Heroes' as the Buddha, and revealed to Mankind, and other beings.

We're thus living at a very fortunate time, in the evolution of 'things'.

He revolutionalised the intellectual milieu of his day; and many of the philosophical Norms we can appreciate today can most probably be traced back to Him.

His coming was like Dawn, in the midst of a hitherto strife-torn philosophico-spiritual climate.

He was like a lotus which grew out of the mud, but which went onto perfume, adorn & beautify the lake of its birth.

Answer 5

False. According to the Buddhist tradition, the historical Buddha Siddharta Gautama was born to the Shakya clan, at the beginning of the Magadha period (546–324 BCE), in the plains of Lumbini, Southern Nepal. He is also known as the Shakyamuni (literally "The sage of the Shakya clan"). After an early life of luxury under the protection of his father, Śuddhodana, the ruler of Kapilavastu (later to be incorporated into the state of Magadha), Siddharta entered into contact with the realities of the world and concluded that real life was about inescapable suffering and sorrow. Siddharta renounced his meaningless life of luxury to became an ascetic. He ultimately decided that asceticism was also meaningless, and instead chose a middle way, a path of moderation away from the extremes of self-indulgence and self-mortification. Under a fig tree, now known as the Bodhi tree, he vowed never to leave the position until he found Truth. At the age of 35, he attained Enlightenment. He was then known as Gautama Buddha, or simply "The Buddha", which means "the enlightened one". For the remaining 45 years of his life, he travelled the Gangetic Plain of central India (region of the Ganges/Ganga river and its tributaries), teaching his doctrine and discipline to an extremely diverse range of people. The Buddha's reluctance to name a successor or to formalise his doctrine led to the emergence of many movements during the next 400 years: first the schools of Nikaya Buddhism, of which only Theravada remains today, and then the formation of Mahayana, a pan-Buddhist movement based on the acceptance of new scriptures.

Answer 6

SG wasn't trying to start a new religion, he was trying to find peace through spirituality. Since he started out life as a Hindu, he sought to get closer to Brahaman by becoming a monk and renouncing the world (he had already lived a life of indulgence as a prince).

Naturally, SG couldn't find the peace he sought by his extremist anti-hedonistic monastic discipline. He already knew that "living it up" wouldn't give him peace either, so that was out. At some point, SG felt he had an epiphany of sorts: there had to be a more balanced "middle" way of living, somewhere between the extremes of hedonism and acetism. He made up the 8-fold Path as the way to mark that Middle way out, and started preaching it.

Soon, SG had a following. He started his own monastic society.

From there, the Buddhistic Monastic society separated into its own religion.

I highly doubt SG set out to do all this. It just snowballed after he was gone.

Answer 7

because he saw the flaws of Hinduism, and he felt that the caste system was wrong (which it was).

He felt that there were more answers to be had, and they could not be found in Hinduism.

And he was right. I am a Hindu, and I believe that,like all religions, Hinduism is NOT the answer for everything.

The answers are inside, whether you choose to conform to world religions or trailblaze your own.

Answer 8

Hindus believe/d in the atman, which is precieved to be the metaphysical being inside us which is the thinker of our thoughts. Siddartha denies the existence of an atman in this sense.

Answer 9

Check out this comprehensive essay:

http://www.svabhinava.org/HinduBuddhist/index.php

This is a PDF file within a frame.

Answer 10

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