Well, good luck with your interests. I gave up studying eastern philosophies when I graduated from college the first time. Never appealed to me anyhow, but it takes all kinds.
The vital part of Christianity seems pretty simple to me, as it would have to be for primitive peasants to understand it and believe. You repent of your sins and accept Christ as your personal Savior. The other stuff is interesting but secondary. At least that’s the way I see it. If you have truly done so, you will try to determine God’s Will and do it.
Other people have other opinions, but if they could make a convincing argument to me, I would change my own opinion. Fortunately, we do not have to be perfect to be accepted by God.
I recently tried to make sense of hinduism. i tried to read the upanishads but it was too difficult for me, at least on my first attempt.
I do favor simplicity, if only because of my own limitations. christianity has the bible, which i have already been exposed to in 8 years of parochial school. buddhism has the 4 noble truths and the 8 fold path.
i am mostly just wandering through this stuff and trying to make simple-minded sense of it all. it may seem like i am aggressive here but i am a lot more demanding of myself than of anyone else. i seek answers. being assertive seems ok under the circumstances. i have corrected myself already many times along this path. i might be wrong here or there, and although my manner may seem strange to some, i am always looking for better answers than those i currently have.
There is also the conjecture that Jesus spent some time in India. I do not have any more proof of that than anyone else (that is, i have no proof at all), but i did not want to rule it out altogether. If we knew for a fact that Jesus did spend some time in the East, then i would imagine that Eastern philosophies and religions (eg Buddhism, Hinduism) would imaginably become more relevant to biblical scholars than they currently are. And then a topic of interest might be a comparison.