Jessica+Maiorano

=Hinduism=

This quote means that Hindu families were all very close with each other. Some texts say its "a deep dark wall." because the start to loose sense of their spiritual direction. They say this because even within families in the 1970's there was separation because to not make over familiarity happen.

(Family Life)



This quote means that whole family is very close. The idea of having almost four generations is for everyone to have a certain thing to do to keep the family going. The extended family provides considerable practical and emotional support.The women in the house usually cook and take care of the domestic responsibilities. The men bring in the money. The older relatives make the more important decions in the household because they have move experience. The house is never owned by the women it it always passed on to the son. It is important to stay in your family and respect them at all times.

(Family Life)

//This is a picture of typically how many people family members live in a house. // =Buddhism=



In buddhism they define family as a group of people who live under the same roof. Usually a married couple, children and sometimes grandparents. This quote means that everyone is family even neighbors, people in the community and friends. Even though they say everyone is family they think there should be moral and ethnic values for each family.

(Family Buddism)



Some ways that family life can lead to happiness and blessings are to respect and support your mother and father, love the children, acting blamelessly and selflessly helping others in the family. These things are easy to do within the family but when something happens within the family the are not engaged in these things as they would like to be.

(Family Buddhism)

//Even though all hese people might not be related, they are family.//

After studying both of these religions and their view on family I think they are very similar. Both religions feel as though having a bigger family is better. Everyone in the family's should respect each other. Buddhism and Hinduism family's have problems but they get threw it by working together. Family is very important in Buddhism and Hinduism.

I choose this topic because I am Christian and in my religion family is a big part of it and I wanted research and find out how important family is in other religions. I have learned that a lot of religions think of family in the same way. I want to study more religions also the spirituality roll play was one of my favorite parts of the unit because we had to do a lot of research to find out everything about the person. When everyone was talking it was really like they were the person because of all the information the student found. The sacred texts helped me do this benchmark because I was used to looking at the texts and commenting, explaining what was on the page. My weaknesses for this project were I couldn't find a lot of resources, if I did this again I would find more resources so I will have more to write about. My strengths were putting my paragraphs to together because I understood both of these religions very well.
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 * Work Cited:**

Source 1: "Family Life." // The heart on Hinduism //. ISKCON Educational Services, 2004. Web. 2 Nov. 2011. <http://hinduism.iskcon.org/lifestyle/904.htm

Source 2: "Famiy Buddhism ." Budda on family Footprint Choices, 2011. Web. 8 Nov. 2011. <http://www.familybuddhism.com/buddha_on_family.php