[starbase]

Actually, the wisest qualities of Hinduism were borrowed from Buddhism, which was once the national religion for all of India (first formed into a distinct empire by Asoka, the first emperor of India and devoted disciple of Buddhism).

Lord Buddha declared the wrongness and emptiness of caste and gender discrimination 2500 years ago. His writings are as beautiful today as they were when he spoke them. May I suggest perusing Theravada Buddhist writings for those seeking alleviation of pervasive unsatisfactoriness?

[razoroccam]

"Actually, the wisest qualities of Hinduism were borrowed from Buddhism"

Sorry dude, you are wrong. It is the other way around - "Hinduism" had been around for at least 1000 years before Buddha showed up. Buddhism borrows concepts of Dharma, Karma, reincarnation, etc very heavily from "Hinduism". The only reason Buddhism is not a "Hindu" religion is that it does not accept the supremacy of the Vedas.

[Gengis Khan]

Buddhism was born out of Hinduism and........ the "wisest qualities of Buddhism were borrowed from Hinduism". During Buddha's time "castism" had degenerated into a social hierarchy determined by one's birth and had turned into an instrument of discrimination, not what Hinduism intended.

The foundations of Hinduism war far stronger than Buddhism and so Hinduism survived and Buddhism died a natural death in India.

[indcons]

LOL.....go back and read your history. Buddha took the essense of the Vedas and distilled them to create the core of his new religion.