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Hinduism influenced Buddhism in that Buddhism came out of Hinduism. Buddhism was a reform movement...though Buddhism and Jainism did have a major impact on Hinduism, such as highlighting the concept of ahems, emphasis on reincarnation and meditation, DE-emphasis on Brahmin's. Hinduism gave Buddhism a lot of the theological and philosophical grounds from which it emerged. In turn, Buddhism's growth meant that Hinduism had to rethink itself and so it did in fact reform parts of Hinduism. Zoroastrianism merged out of Hinduism many, many, many years prior to Buddhism. In fact it could be said that it was the first break away religion from Hinduism. The Vedas themselves mention Zoroaster and talk about his teachings and how his followers had left and traveled west. The major influence Zoroastrianism had on Judaism is that it A) brought the story of the flood to Judaism (Zoroastrians carried it over from Hinduism, but changed the names....Judaism changed the names and some of the minor details) and B) created this idea of duality. Christianity would take this up a lot more, though, than Judaism and would also add the concept from Zoroastrian of "the final battle between good and evil"...coincidental one of the few teachings that Hinduism kind-of-sort-of adopted (Vaishnavas have the belief of Kalki, the final incarnation of Vishnu who will one day fight the last battle between light and darkness...sound familiar, that's because Zoroaster was the first to teach this and Hinduism adopted it...and makes mention of that fact in the Vedas that this was the only teaching by Zoroaster that they found compatible, they rejected duality and kept with monastic-theism).
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Using either Zoroastrianism and JudaismORHinduism and Buddhism,explain how one religi
