Hinduism

Hinduism is the generic term for a conglomeration of religions domestic in India. Although a basic idea exists the practice of belief is left up to the Hindu himself, the idea being that every human being is responsible for its own life.
To be a Hindu means accepting the four fundamental axioms: the Veden as a revelation, the doctrine of the rebirth, the estate and caste hierarchy arising from it and the theory of salvation. Through the knowledge of the Veden, one can escape the rebirth.
The belief in the rebirth is associated with the understanding of the predestination by Karma. Samsara is the world of movement in causal successions: Living beings such as people, animals, plants and Gods move by themselves or are moved from outside. Death is the end of the being's ability to move on its own. The soul will be born in a new body as a result of previous lives and activities.
Salvation can not happen by way of an act as, after the causal concatenation, every act always produces a new one. There are three ways to salvation, three religious models...

Buddhism

All major schools of the Buddhist Vajrayana respectively Tantrayana from Tibet found a new home in Sikkim, Darjeeling and Kalimpong. A monastery of the Pre-Buddhist Bon religion exists in the south of Sikkim as well.
Siddhartha Gautama, born in the 6th century B.C., is considered to be the founder of Buddhism. By meditation under a Bodhi tree he found inspiration, the Buddhahood. In his first sermon in the Gazelle park of Sarnath he showed his disciples the way to salvation which he had realised: neither the devotion to the sensual enjoyment nor an exaggerated self-torment, but the 'middle path' of a moderate world-denial to reach one's goal. However, this assumes the knowledge of the 'Four precious truths', that everything is suffering, that the origin of suffering is desire, but that there is an end to suffering, the Nirvana. The eightfold path determined by Buddha leads to the Nirvana: right attitude, right views, right talking, right action, right life, right aspiration, right consideration and right contemplation. These eight links can be reduced to three basic elements; morality, composure and knowledge...