Hinduism_&_Buddism

Hinduism & Buddism In this essay my goal is to compare and contrast the origin, the writings, the rituals or festivals, and present day practices of two religions: Hinduism and Buddhism. I am neither of these religions so this assignment is going to give me the opportunity to learn about both these religions. I don’t even know anyone that are of these religions so I am very glad that I have this chance to learn about something that I never thought I would have to learn about. I hope that by the end of this essay I am able to fully understand and gain a certain knowledge of these two religions. First subject that I would like to touch upon is the origin of these two religions. Hinduism is a religion that is followed by more than 650 million people in India and 100 million in the rest of the world. The word ‘Hindu’ was the name that was given to the people who lived east of the river Indus; it was not used to refer to the religion until later. Many Hindu’s still refer to their religious tradition as dharma. Dharma refers to the laws, duties, festivals, religions, hinduism, buddha, world, two, writings, one, hindu, buddhism, become, written, rituals, scriptures, religion, india, hindu’s, first, day, both, about, word, teachings, story, shiva, sanskrit, rites, religious, people, out, moon, life, learn, full, festival