Buddhisms start in India, but how come India is Hinduism now, and Buddhist is very popular in china? Help me!?

Question

In What dynasty Buddhist is most stable and popular in china..... Please help me!!!
I am really confuse about these stuff.

Can someone tell me what are the 10 golden rules? (Buddhisms Golden Rule)
Please Help me!! Thanks

Why do they where robe?
What really is Bodhisattva?

how did Siddhartha Gautamareject his old life?

Answer 1

Buddhism intellectually dominated India for about a thousand years, but then Hinduism intellctually stroke back by copying some Buddhist ideas and philosophical views. After Hinduism regained its strength, the Muslim invaders came to North India (where Buddhism had its strongest hold) and wiped away the peaceful Buddhist monastic Universities and monasteries. The leading Buddhist scholars had to flee North, to Tibet and Central Asia.

In China, Chinese Buddhism was very strong in the Tang dynasty, when many emperors adopted the Buddhist faith, but then it became weaker again, because later emperors, like earlier emperors, favoured the not-very-religious state Confucianism. During the Qing dynasty (the last dynasty), almost a thousand years later, China was ruled by the Tibetan-Buddhist Manchu, and some of their Emperors (especially Kangxi and Qianlong) did a lot to build monasteries and Buddhist temples, support Tibetan Buddhist masters, and making Buddhism highly influential again (not only Tibetan Buddhism).


The "Ten Golden Rules" is not a common term in Buddhism, but I guess you mean the "Ten Virtuous Deeds", which generally means avoiding the "Ten Non-Virtuous Deeds":

Thus, avoiding:

1. Killing
2. Stealing
3. Sexual misconduct
4. Lying
5. Divisive speech
6. Idle chatter
7. Harsh words
8. Covetousness
9. Ill will
10. Wrong views

Answer 2

Buddhism has a long, complex history---too much to go into here. There is not much of a conflict between Buddhism and Hinduism---Buddhist ideas were absorbed by Hindu people without really converting them. In some sense, Buddha became just another aspect of Hinduism. But when Buddhist monks first appeared in China, many former Confucians were ready to become more "spiritual", and Buddhism grew rapidly for a while, extended to Korea and Japan, and then was suppressed for a while during various periods in Chinese history.

Answer 3

Asia’s two spiritual titans, Hinduism and Buddhism, have exerted profound influence on the planet and its people since their beginnings. They are unique in offering imperative moral direction alongside esoteric knowledge of the yogas leading to transcendent states of consciousness and ultimately to Liberation.

Taken together, Buddhist and Hindu adherents and enthusiasts would roughly account for one-quarter of the entire world population. Both religions have spread from the same soil, India, to countries far and wide. Buddhism especially has settled abroad, while its once powerful presence in India has dwindled to fewer than five million adherents (.5 percent of the population). Despite significant similarities and lasting philosophical affinities, profound and undeniable differences remain between them, differences that sincere seekers of either tradition must eventually cognize, understand and resolve to agree or disagreewith, thus essentially choosing one religion or the other.

The main differences between the two systems are over their cosmic view and way of practice. Vedic systems are built upon fundamental principles like the Self (Atman), the Creator (Ishvara) and Godhead (Brahman). Buddhism rejects all such ontological principles as mere creations of the mind itself. Apart from such philosophical differences, both systems share the same basic ethical
values, like nonviolence, truthfulness, nonattachment and nonstealing.

Difference between Hinduism and Buddhism

Hinduism

1 Hindus believe in a one, all-pervasive Supreme Being who is both immanent and transcendent, both Creator and Unmanifest Reality.
2 Hindus believe in the divinity of the four Vedas, the world's most ancient scripture, and venerate the Agamas as equally revealed. These primordial hymns are God's word and the bedrock of Sanatana Dharma, the eternal religion.
3 Hindus believe that the universe undergoes endless cycles of creation, preservation and dissolution.
4 Hindus believe in karma, the law of cause and effect by which each individual creates his own destiny by his thoughts, words and deeds.
5 Hindus believe that the soul reincarnates, evolving through many births until all karmas have been resolved, and moksha, liberation from the cycle of rebirth, is attained. Not a single soul will be deprived of this destiny.
6 Hindus believe that divine beings exist in unseen worlds and that temple worship, rituals, sacraments and personal devotionals create a communion with these devas (divine beings) and God.
7 Hindus believe that an enlightened master, or satguru, is essential to know the Transcendent Absolute, as are personal discipline, good conduct, purification, pilgrimage, self-inquiry, meditation and surrender in God.
8 Hindus believe that all life is sacred, to be loved and revered, and therefore practice ahimsa, noninjury, in thought, word and deed.
9 Hindus believe that no religion teaches the only way to salvation above all others, but that all genuine paths are facets of God's Light, deserving tolerance and understanding.

Buddhism

1.Buddhists believe that the supreme is completely transcendent and can be described as Sunya, a void or state of nonbeing.

2.Buddhists believe in the four Noble Truths: 1. that suffering exists; 2. that desire is the cause of suffering; 3. that suffering may be ended by the annihilation of desire; 4. that to end desire one must follow the Eight-Fold Path.

3.Buddhists believe in the eightfold path of right belief, right aims, rightspeech, right actions, right occupation, right endeavor, right mindfulness and right meditation.

4.Buddhists believe in dharma (the way), karma (cause and effect),reincarnation, the sanga (brotherhood of seekers) and the passage on earth as an opportunity to end the cycle of birth and death.

5.Buddhists believe that life’s aim is to end suffering through the annihilation of individual existence and absorption into nirvana, the Real.

6.Buddhists believe in the “Middle Path,” living moderately, avoiding extremes of luxury and asceticism.

7.Buddhists believe in the sanctity of the Buddha and in the sacred scriptures of Buddhism: the Tripitaka (Three Baskets of Wisdom) and/or the Mahayana Sutras.

8.Buddhists believe in the greatness of self-giving love and compassion toward all creatures that live, for these contain merit exceeding the giving of offerings to the Gods.

9.Buddhists believe that man’s true nature is divine and eternal, yet his individuality is subject to the change that affects all forms and is therefore transient, dissolving at liberation into nirvana.

In sum, Buddhism rejects God (Ishvara) or a cosmic lord and creator. So it has been rejected by Hindus in India, though Buddha lived and enlightened as a Hindu who accepted vedas and scriptures of Hinduism

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Answer 4

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism

http://online.sfsu.edu/~rone/Buddhism/footsteps.htm

http://www.buddhanet.net/

http://americanbuddhist.net/taxonomy/term/51