From which earlier religion did Buddhism originate.?

Answer 1

AnswerHinduism or Brahmanism as it was called during acient India.AnswerBuddha introduced new ways to interpret some teachings in Hinduism. Such as the varna concept, sadhisha concept. Buddha was a social reformer, so he took the teachings which were there in India at that time (Hinduism) and taught people new ways to interpret them. ( A good example is, the Hindu concept of worshiping six directions (north, east, west, south, up, down) is shown in Buddhism as how to interact with people around us. North being friends, West being the spouse, East being the parents, South being the teachers, Up being the clergy, and the down being the servants. Buddha showed that there are different duties we should do to these six types of people. Doing those duties is taken as worshiping them.

ANSWER:

In addition to Hinduism the Jain religion has several similarities too Buddhism. As there is evidence of Jainism some 1500 years before Buddhism there is reason to suspect some, but not all, Buddhist thinking used concepts of Jainism.

The Jain religion accepts these following items to be true and orients beliefs and behaviors around them:

• Every living being has a soul (See Commentary)
• Every soul can potentially become divine with innate infinite knowledge, infinite perception, infinite power, and infinite bliss. (See Commentary)
• Every living being is yourself, harm no one.
• Every soul is can be born into a laver of existence depending on its karma: celestial, human, sub-human or demon (See Commentary)
• Every soul is the determines its own life, here and hereafter.(See Commentary)
• A soul freed from karma becomes god like liberated.
• The freeing of Karma is achived by: Right View, Right Knowledge and Right Conduct
• Non-violence is the basis of Right View, the condition of right Knowledge and the start of right Conduct.
• Control your senses.
• Limit your possessions and your possessiveness
• Keep company of the holy and better qualified, show mery to the afflicted and tolerate the perversely inclined
• Four things are difficult to attain by a soul: human birth, knowledge of the law, faith in the law and the pursuit of the right path. (See Commentary)
• Do not waste human life in evil ways yours or others. Rise up in your spiritual evolution.

Commentary:It should be pointed out, with respect to the beliefs of Janism, that the Buddha specifically taught that there is no soul (atman) in the sense of a separate part of anything. Quite the contrary. Thus, there is no correlation between that portion of Jainism and Buddhism. Some of the other concepts, however, correlate well.