Mahayana Buddhism speaks of the goddess Tara, but she is always shown smaller than the Buddha; in Hinduism the Goddess is, depending on context, smaller, equal or even bigger than Shiva or Vishnu.

Is Buddhism a reinterpretation of Hinduism? - This is a common question asked many times because the teachings and the methods of both the ways are quite similar. We will try to give a general ...

In both Hinduism and Buddhism, the snake or Naga, Sanskrit for “serpent”, is often depicted as a divine or semidivine being with spiritual and physical powers. In Southeast Asian countries ...

Hinduism and Buddhism are two parts of the eternal tradition, there is definitely an ideological difference between them but there was no place for violence and there is no place for violence.

Tolstoy referenced Buddhism directly in “What I Believe” (1883), “A Confession” (1884), and “What Then Should We Do” (1886), mentioning the Buddha alongside spiritual and philosophical ...

About 90 percent of Indonesians are Muslim, but Hinduism and Buddhism, once dominant in Java, permeate society and contribute to a moderate form of Islam.