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HINDUISM 1 All three of these religions listed above tend to have some similarities between them. Some of them acquired aspects from their neighboring religions, or simply evolved in each other. For example Buddhism, as an old dominant religion of India actually developed in many other forms of Asian Buddhism and became the dominant religion in China and well over Asia. While even before Buddhism, Hinduism had already rooted itself in India. Buddhism adopted many important aspects of Hinduism- the teaching about reincarnation. Buddha- Siddharta Gautama brought the change, traveling to Asia to seek “Ultimate Enlightenment” which is “Nirvana”, could be referred to as the main goal of life, or the state- once you fulfill it. Nirvana, as it is known in Hinduism and Buddhism is one of the similarities. The main idea in Buddhism is trying to understand the way, - find and reach the