ring the seventh century and ismainly practiced in the Himalayan regions. The teachers are known as "YogaGuru." This school "developed out of the Mahayana teachings in NortheastIndia around 500 C.E. and spread to Tibet, China, and Japan"(BuddhistBasics pg.4). "It teaches not to suppress energy but rather to transformit"(Buddhist Basics pg.4). Tantrayana stresses the interwoveness of things;the interdependence of existence, and the continuity of cause and effect. Theprinciple meditative practice is that of the sacred outlook, or seeingappearances as pure. Rituals include the repeating of the sacred utterances,mantras, emulating their gestures, mundras, and the systematic arrangement ofsymbols, such as the mandala, on which the process of meditativevisualization, yantra, is based. Buddhism is very logical. It is not based onblindly believing its teachings. The Buddha himself urged his own students tonot merely follow him, but to put his teachings to the test, study the way ofthe Buddha and realize the path for themselves. "To study the way of theBuddha is to study oneself. To study oneself is to forget oneself. To forgetoneself is to be enlightened by everything"(Buddhist Basics pg.6). Buddhismis a philosophy, regarded as a religion that teaches you how to escape theSelf in order to attain Nirvana.Hinduism hinduism The term Hinduism refers to the civilization of the Hindus (originally, the inhabitants of the land of the Indus River). Introduced in about 1830 by British writers, it properly denotes the Indian civilization of approximately the last 2,000 years, which evolved from Vedism the religion of the Indo-European peoples who settled in India in the last centuries of the 2nd millennium BC. The spectrum that ranges from the level of popular Hindu belief to that of elaborate ritual technique and philosophical speculation is very broad and is attended by many stages of transition and varieties of coexistence. Magic rites, animal worship,...
