There is only one similarity: teaching a person well. Buddhist faith leads towards enlightenment, while Confucianism teaches good conduct. Both beliefs and cultures were destroyed and deprecated by the Chinese communist regime during the Great Cultural Revolution. A Chinese found Confucianism, but an Indian found Buddhism. These quick comparisons show the differences between religions, but you will read more detailed comparisons in the essay. A man named Confucius founded Confucianism; this is how the religion got its name. Buddhism was discovered by Siddhartha Gautama and was given the name Buddhism because Buddha means the awakened one. Confucianism was found in the Chinese state of Lu where Confucius was born in 551 BC Buddhism was found in northern India where Siddhartha was born in 563 BC Both religions formed in the mid-500s BC just a couple of countries apart and their concepts were similar but differ as seen in this paragraph. Buddhist belief Buddhism seeks the attainment of nirvana whereby a person transcends the materiality of the world and is...