Buddhism and Hinduism in India

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Buddhism and Hinduism in India

• HON 197 African and Eurasia Civilization
• Monday, October 9, 2006

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Aryan migration
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Ancient Indian caste system

• brahmins priests
• kshatriyas warriors and kings
• vaishyas traders and farmers
• shudras laborers and artisans

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Union of linga and yoni
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Siddhartha Gautamas (566-486 BCE) Four Noble
Truths

• Truth of Suffering being alive involves
  suffering and disappointment
• Truth of Arising suffering results from selfish
  desire for pleasure and profit that causes us to
  be caught in the cycle of rebirth
• Truth of Cessation to escape suffering one
  should turn from selfish desire
• Truth of the Path by following an Eightfold
  Path, one can end suffering

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The Eightfold Path

• right way of life
• right effort
• right awareness
• right concentration

• right views
• right intension
• right speech
• right action

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Mauryan Empire (ca. fourth century CE)
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One of Ashokas pillars
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Seated Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of
Infinite Compassion, ca. late 7thfirst half of
8th century CE,Sri Lanka
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Standing four-armed Avalokiteshvara, the
Bodhisattva of Infinite Compassion, ca. 9th
century CE, Thailand
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First-century CE representation of the Buddha
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Buddha, Gupta period, second half of 6th
centuryIndia
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Buddhist temple caves of Ajanta, western India
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Stela with a four-armed Vishnu, 10th11th century
CE,India
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Façade of the temple Kandariya Mahadeva,
dedicated to Shiva
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Large statue in southern India depicting a
meditating Shiva
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Union of linga and yoni
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Shiva as Lord of Dance (Nataraja), ca. 11th
century CE, Tamil Nadu, India
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Kailasanatha temple dedicated to Shiva (India)
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Great Stupa of Sanchi, India
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Standing Buddha, mid-5th century CE,China
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Standing Bodhisattva Maitreya, the Buddha of the
Future, 9th10th century CE, Nepal
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