Monday, February 22, 2010


Buddhism has interacted with several East Asia and has come to spread to parts of India too during the second century AD. Buddha Vairochana's symbol was the sun, many equated Amaterasu( a god of Shinto) as the sun god's reincarnation. The Buddhism followers were to follow the Eightfold. The Eightfold path for Buddhists is very similar to what the Ten Commandments are to Christens.Buddhism became increasingly accepted by the Chinese intellectual classes, it also plays a major role in Asias's history.


Hinduism is the predominant religion India. Hinduism also plays a big part in other major parts of Asia (Most of Asia). Hinduism is often called the "oldest living religion" or the "oldest living major tradition". Hinduism is formed of diverse traditions and has no single founder. Hinduism is the world's third largest religion after Christianity and Islam with about one billion adherents, of whom approximately 905 million live in India.


Mohenjo-daro is located in the Sindh province on a Pleistocene ridge in the center of the flood plain of the Indus River. It was one the largest settlements of the Indus plain.It was built around 2600 B.C. And was abandoned at 1900 B.C. It was one of the administrative centers of the ancient .
p.s.The Indus Valley Civilization was a Bronze Age civilization which centred mostly in the western part of the Indian Subcontinent and flourished around the Indus river basin.