Christianity Vs. Buddhism

Christianity is one of the most practiced religions in the world. Buddhism is not practiced as much as Christianity. Christianity and Buddhism were both founded in the reign of Asia. I believe that Christianity is a very common religion unlike Buddhism and some other religions follow Jesus, and believe in his teachings. Christianity was founded by Jesus in the Roman Empire in about the 4 B.C. While Christianity is monotheistic, Buddhism has no god, but they have a teacher, Buddha. Siddhartha founded Buddhism around 592 B.C.


Buddhism is the idea that one lives a moral life. The Buddha taught people The Four Noble Truths that lie at the heart of Buddhism. The Eightfold Path was another religious belief; it was viewed as “right views, right aspirations, right speech, right conduct, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, and right contemplation.” The final goal in life for Buddhist is to achieve nirvana, release from the cycle of rebirth.

As Buddhism was a strong faith, Christianity was strong too in their beliefs. When someone becomes a Christian, the Ten Commandments are a guide that helps someone with daily activities. If someone breaks one of the Ten Commandments, they will have to go to confession to regain that Commandment back. The Ten Commandments tell people how they should behave in life. Also, the Bible tells the story of Jesus, before and after life. All his great miracles he performed on Earth are explained in the Bible.

Jesus’ miracles shocked everyone that heard about them. One interesting one is “Feeding 5000 Men and their families.” The story is, on the shore of Galilee, people had no food to eat. Jesus told his disciples to give some food to the people, but the only food that was there were five loaves of bread, and two fish. So, Jesus looked up to heaven and divided the bread and fish and they started to multiply. The people of Galilee were feed.

People believed in the miracles Jesus preformed, they always believed in afterlife. Christianity has a heaven and a hell. If a person believes in God, they will be saved and sent to heaven. If a person betrays God, they will be sent to hell. Buddhism believe in rebirth, death seeking enlighten and achieving nirvana.

Christianity was founded by Jesus and Buddhism was founded by Siddhartha. The Eightfold Path and the Ten Commandments had their role in both religions to help shape society.

Helping out other people in life is always a good thing to do. Jesus helped everyone and anyone, even if he did not like them. Afterlife is a big part of everyone’s life. Death is always occurring, and different religions have different ways to make the persons afterlife good.