Part 1 of Essay
In explaining Buddhism, one must first understand Hinduism from which Buddhism grew. Buddhism is a reaction against Hinduism as protestant is against Catholicism. According to The World’s Religions by Houston Smith, there are six aspects of religion that appear so often that a suggestion can be implied that they ar ....

Part 2 of Essay
.... religion, where the leadership makes decisions that must be obeyed. Buddha preached his religion with an absence of authority. He attacked this authority on two fronts. First he wanted to end “monopolistic” hold of the Hindu Brahmins on religious teaching by making the faith accessible to the average person taking away the secrecy of the Brahmins. Buddha said, “there is no such thing as closed-fistedness in the Buddha”. (The Worlds Religions pg. 94) In other words the religious ....