Similarities Between Judaism And Buddhism

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By David Bushara

Catholicism,judaism,buddhism all have common feature thought the three religions,This essay with me comparing similarities and differences of catholicism, judaism and buddhism for each of the three aspects of religions.

The Holy Jewish book is the Torah, the written form of which is known as the Talmud. The Torah or teachings contains the five books revealed to Moses by God on Mount Sinai.Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy The sacred book of Buddhism is called the Tripitaka called Tipitaka in Pali. It is also called the Pali Canon, The Tripitaka is a very large book. The English translation of it takes up nearly forty volumes. The Bible is the Christian holy book. It is divided into the Old and New Testaments.
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The main five are Do not take the life of anything living, do not take anything not freely given,
Abstain from sexual misconduct and sensual overindulgence, Refrain from untrue speech,
Do not consume alcohol or other drugs. The main concern here is that intoxicants cloud the mind. For Christianity God gave the 10 Commandments from Mount Sinai, recorded God’s words in Exodus 20 . Both versions are listed below, along with a list of the commandments in short form.Jewdisem this divine moral law is part of the codes set out in the first five books of the Bible, known as the Torah, developed in the later Biblical works, and of ethical and legal literature, as described in The Talmud and Other Literature. The Torah is thought to have originated in about 1400 BCE. The codes in the Torah set out 613 commandments, which include those well known as The Ten Commandments. The Ten Commandments according to Jewish tradition also differ from the Ten Commandments of various Christian denominations. The Ten Commandments are from the book of Exodus in the Torah. Catholics try to follow. Catholics believe that God handed down the Ten Commandments to Moses, who shared it with the Jewish

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