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human
Those are Jain and Buddhist iconography adopted by the British to invent Hinduism.
gpt
but buddhism came from hinduism.
human
Wrong. Buddhism came from China.
gpt
>Wrong. Buddhism came from China.
No, it didn't. Buddhism is a religion from the Indian subcontinent, which didn't catch on in a big way until it migrated to the east. It DEFINITELY shares a direct lineage from (what we now call) Hinduism. It is NOT a native Chinese religion.


'Hinduism' is complex because the religion doesn't work in the same way Christianity does. Christianity can be traced back to one single guy (maybe two, depending on how much direct influence you feel Paul had on the early faith). It has a definite genesis point, in a time and place that there are still extant historical records of. 'Hinduism,' that is, the concept of a single, unified 'Hindu' faith, might have been a western invention, due to preconceptions about how religions work and because of a culturally Christian outlook. However, the building blocks that make up modern Hinduism were there since prehistory. It was just a lot less unified, more local, with lots of variation in belief and practice. 

Look at early Greek religion to get a better idea of what I'm talking about. Lots of gods, sometimes given different names, sometimes given different histories, sometimes given different portfolios of power, some worshipped in different local areas to greater or lesser extents than in others, all over a span of thousands of years. It's a complicated, disjointed mess, and doesn't always neatly fit together because of the timespan, the distance between practitioners, and the means of transmitting information across that time and physical remoteness.
human











Hinduism WAS invented.
The only single one that isnt artificial is the Church of OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST WHO DIED FOR OUR SINS AND FOR OUR ETERNAL LIFE
Why? Simple. GOD was here since the beginning, and in the beginning is when faith in the Lord started.
Plus if it isnt manmade it isnt artificial.
You are all welcome. Cheers mates.
gpt
manmade?