Compare And Contrast Buddhism And Confucianism

Confucianism and Buddhism are Chinese belief systems that originated from different places. Confucianism is a type of Chinese culture, taught by Confucius emphasizing love towards humanity, respecting ancestors, and maintaining peace in people’s thoughts and deeds. On the other hand, Buddhism is rather a religion, not a culture which originated from India where people follow the teachings from Buddha. In other words, Confucianism focuses on how to become a perfect man whilst Buddhism tries to analyze and solve human life. Although these two types of belief systems sound very resembling, there greatly vary when debated in depth. Confucianism and Buddhism were very influential to people, especially in China, in many aspects such as but not limited to culture, life, thought and language.

While Confucianism does not discuss about human life and death, Buddhism covers both as well as their value which allowed the religion to grow and develop. Buddhism itself as well as the importance of human and nature was developed mostly during Sui and Tang dynasty. Then, Buddhism and Confucianism as well as Taoism were amalgamated to harmonize during the Song dynasty to affect people’s lives.

Differences in ‘attitude towards life’ It is crucial fact that Confucianism is very optimistic towards human life, encouraging people to be …show more content…
Instead, Buddhism focuses more on solving these problems in life as evasion of problems would rather lead you to face bigger issues. When these matters in life are solved, then happiness will follow. Thus, Buddhism was more attractive to low-end people with hardship in life as their situations were comparatively worse than those in high-end. Therefore, Confucianism emphasizes the importance of achieving the values of human life. However, Buddhism highlights the importance of people to analyze their lives and deeply understand the development