Similarities Of Christianity And Siddhartha Gautama

This essay aims to compare and contrast the main initiators of Christianity and Buddhism, Jesus and Siddhartha Gautama. Siddhartha Gautama, also known as Buddha changed the world with his teachings as well as Jesus did. Nowadays, both of them have a considerable number of adherents in different continents and a notable influence in the culture of some countries. However, these men’s beliefs and the stories of their lives have substantial dissimilarities which are not obvious to understand. In order to understand the dissimilitude of one man’s life from the other I will highlight some of the features which make them different in terms of their origin, philosophy and the way in which they suffered death. As previously mentioned, an important characteristic which separates Jesus Christ from Buddha is the origin, to wit, the place of provenance, family and year in which they were born. It is relevant to consider that even though they were born in Asia, they did not share place nor date of birth. It is well known that Christ was born in Bethlehem, approximately in 07-04 BC and was raised by his mother, Mary and foster father, Joseph. He did not have a particularly affluent family neither a kingdom to inherit as Buddha …show more content…
It was explained that, in terms of origin Buddha was older than Jesus and he had a wealthier family than Christ. Also, they did not born in the same country. Furthermore, in terms of philosophy, Christ believed in an almighty God who can punish and Buddha believed that each person is responsible for their own liberation and behavior. As for the reasons of their death, Jesus died crucified, but Buddha died of natural causes due to his old age. Now, that some of the similarities and differences between Siddhartha Gautama and Jesus Christ have been written I expect you can understand each man’s life and