Wikipedia Trail: From Vishnu to Vedas

Vishnu: I started here because the Ramayana is focused on Rama and his destruction of Ravana. However Rama is basically just Vishnu which is stated throughout the epic. It was interesting to see that Vishnu is the deity that is mainly associated with avatars as he has the most avatars. The Ramayana did also say that Rama's brothers were also avatars of different gods.

Avatar: These people are physical incarnations of the gods where it is reinforced that avatars are commonly associated with Vishnu. However, Shiva and Brahma also have avatars such as Lakshmana for Shiva. It was odd for me to see Buddha on the list of Vishnu's avatars so that is where we go next.

Gautama Buddha: I went to go find Buddha's connection with Vishnu as his avatar and it seems that there are different opinions on the history of Buddha. Some Hindus do believe that Buddha is the ninth avatar of Vishnu, while he is also a prophet for a small sect of Muslims. It is interesting to see such overlap between religions.

Vedas: It said on the Buddha page that the Hindus believe that Buddha is an avatar of Vishnu but that Buddha's teaching went against the Vedas. So the Vedas are the religious texts of Hinduism, similar to the Bible and Quran. It looks like the Vedas are split into different categories which was different.

Statue of Rama

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