Which of the three major religions had the earliest origins?

Buddhist Origins At the time of the founding of Buddhism, India had entered into a serfdom ruled by feudal lords. At that time, the three traditional Indian beliefs of Vedic apocalypse, sacrificial omnipotence and Brahmin supremacy, as well as the position of the Brahmins as the monopolizer of all wisdom and the representative of theocratic rule began to waver, and became the target of all. Among the freethinkers there emerged various satsangs against the traditional beliefs. Buddhism belonged to one of the sramanic trends. The founder, Siddhartha Gautama, was born in Kaviravi in present-day Nepal as a prince of the Sakya clan. There are still various accounts of his birth and death in both Northern and Southern Buddhism, but it is generally believed that he lived in the 6th to 5th centuries BCE. At the age of 29, he became a monk and practiced Buddhism. At the age of 29, he became a Buddhist monk, and after attaining Buddhahood, he propagated the truth of his enlightenment to the masses in the central Ganges Valley of India and gained more and more followers, thus organizing himself into a religious order and forming Buddhism. he died at the age of 80 in Dharmachakra. Evolution of Buddhism Buddhism evolved several times in India after its foundation. The Buddhism preached by the Buddha and his direct disciples is called Fundamental Buddhism. After the Buddha's death, his disciples practiced the Four Noble Truths, the Noble Eightfold Path, and other basic doctrines, and maintained the same practices and conventions in the life of the Order as they had during his lifetime. As the Buddha spoke differently on different occasions about different subjects during his lifetime, the disciples came to have different understandings of this. About 100 years after the Buddha's arrival, Buddhism split into the Theravada and Vajrayana sects, known as the Fundamental Two. In the following 100 years, there were further splits into eighteen or twenty sects, called the "final sects". There are different accounts of the order, date, name and region of the split. At that time, Buddhism spread as far as the foothills of the Himalayas in the north and the Kisnath River (Krishna River) in the south. It is generally believed that the largest division directly from the Theravada division was the Sakyamuni division. There are major doctrinal differences between the Theravada (represented by the Sakyamuni) and the Volksbhavana. The main differences between the two are: ① The understanding of dharma (things, existence). According to the Popular Ministry, "the past and the future are not real bodies" and "the existing bodies and functions can be called real", i.e., all realities are born and perish according to karma, and the past is already extinguished and has no entity, and the future has not arisen and has no entity, and there is the body and function of dharma only in the present moment; the Saying of All That Is Ministry advocates that there is only the present moment. and action; the Department of All That Is asserts that the body of the Dharma exists eternally, and that the past, present, and future are all real, that is, the so-called "body of the Dharma is eternal," "three realities," known as the theory of the Dharma of the I Emptiness of the Dharma. ② Knowledge of the Buddha. The Popular Ministry believes that Sakyamuni Buddha was born on earth is an incarnation rather than the actual body, the Buddha's actual body is the accumulation of very long practice, he has an infinite life and power, said all the words for the random sayings, and a sound of all the Dharma; said that the Ministry does not recognize Sakyamuni is the incarnation of the Buddha's words are not all the scriptures, and is not a sound of all the Dharma. (iii) Recognition of voice-hearers and bodhisattvas. The Popular Sect emphasizes the Bodhisattva's compassionate wish to help all sentient beings, and emphasizes the Bodhisattva over the voice-hearer; while the Saying of All That Is Sect admits that there is a difference in the root nature of the practices of voice-hearers, karmic consciousnesses, and bodhisattvas and the paths of their practices, it believes that there is no difference between the Buddha and voice-hearers and karmic consciousnesses in terms of the liberation obtained. Around A.D., the worship of stupas became popular among Buddhists, leading to the formation of the bodhisattvas, the original order of Mahayana. Some of them practiced and preached according to the Mahaprajna Sutra, Vimalaya Sutra, Myoho-renge-kyo Sutra, and other scriptures that expounded Mahayana thought and practice, forming the two major systems of the Chung Kuan School (Empty Sect) and Yoga Lineage (Aristotelian Sect), and derogatorily labeling the early Buddhism as Hinayana. About 500 years after the death of the Buddha, the Mahayana School of Buddhism emerged. The founder of this school, Long Shu, expounded the ideas of emptiness, the Middle Way, and the Two Noble Truths. His disciple, Tipu, continued to propagate Long Shu's teachings, which led to the further development of Mahayana Buddhism. Later on, there were also Chingpo and Fojiao, Yuezheng, and so on, who expounded the idea of the Middle Way from different perspectives, forming the Self-supporting School and the Yingcheng School. At the same time, the Hinayana Buddhism, such as the Saying of All Things and the Sutra and Measurement Departments, continued to develop. About 900 years after the death of the Buddha, the Yogacara School emerged. The founders of this school were Wujing and Sekyong. Wujing was originally a monk of the Sakyamuni school, who expounded the Mahayana teachings because he felt that the Sakyamuni teachings were insufficient. His younger brother, Sekkyo, was originally a scholar of the Soto sect, but later converted to Mahayana from Wushu and became known as the "Teacher of a Thousand Sections". Wujing Shihshang promoted the theory of consciousness, which is "all dharma is consciousness" and "the three realms are only the mind", and since then, his lineage has mainly included Nanda, Anhui, Chenna, and after the Protector of the Law, there are also Preceptor Xian, and Pro-Glory, etc. After the 7th century, Indian Tantric Buddhism began to develop, and it has become the most widely used and popular religion in India. After the 7th century, Indian Tantra became popular, and after the 8th century, it became close to Hinduism. The Polo dynasty in the Nalanda temple outside another super precept temple, as the center of the study and propaganda of tantra; 9 centuries later, tantra is more prevalent, the successive formation of the vajrayana, kusunyana and time wheel multiplication. 11 centuries, the power of Islam gradually into the East India, to the early 13th century, the super precept temple and many other important temples were destroyed, monks and disciples scattered, and Buddhism has finally disappeared in the South Asian subcontinent. Spread Buddhism was originally popular only in the area of the Ganges Valley in Central India. During the Peacock Dynasty, King Ashoka adopted Buddhism as the state religion, built stupas, carved edicts and teachings on cliffs and pillars, and since then it has spread to many areas of the South Asian subcontinent. At the same time, he also sent missionary teachers to preach in the surrounding countries, from Burma in the east to Sri Lanka in the south, and from Syria to Egypt in the west, so that Buddhism gradually became a world religion. The spread of Buddhism to all parts of Asia can be roughly divided into two routes: the south was the first to spread into Sri Lanka, and from Sri Lanka into Burma, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos and other countries. From the north, Buddhism spread to China via the Pamir Plateau, and then from China to Korea, Japan, Vietnam and other countries. Buddhism spread to Sri Lanka around the time of the Peacock Dynasty in the 3rd century BC. King Ashoka had sent his son Mahindra to Sri Lanka to teach Theravada Buddhism. Two Buddhist schools emerged in Sri Lanka in the 1st century B.C.: the Daiji School and the Daishonin School. in the first half of the 3rd century Mahayana Buddhism was introduced to Sri Lanka, and within the Daishonin School, the Nanji School emerged. in the early 5th century, Jokyoin organized and commented on the Nanji Tripitaka in the Pali language, and established a complete system of Theravada teachings. The Daiji school is considered the orthodox school of Southern Buddhism. Buddhism in Burma, Cambodia, Laos and other countries all endured the teachings of the Sri Lankan Dzogchen School, which was twice destroyed by foreigners and colonialists after the twelfth century, and then reintroduced from Burma and Thailand. Theravada Buddhism was introduced from Sri Lanka to Myanmar in the 4th to 5th centuries, and in the mid-11th century, King Anuradha of the Thingyan dynasty, the earliest united feudal dynasty in Myanmar, adopted Dzogchen Buddhism as the state religion. Subsequent dynasties protected Buddhism and built a large number of magnificent pagodas, such as the Great Pagoda of Yangon built in the 18th century. Buddhism was introduced to Thailand from Sri Lanka around the 12th century, and in the 13th century, the Sukhothai Dynasty of Thailand declared Buddhism to be the state religion, and in the 18th century, the kings of the Bangkok Dynasty all believed in Buddhism, and in the middle of the 19th century, Rama IV reformed the Buddhism, forming the old and the new, which has lasted until now, and in 1919~1927, he published all the commentaries on the Tripitaka and the extra-Tibetan canonical books. Thailand is currently the most flourishing Buddhist country in Southeast Asia and is known as the "Land of Monks". In the 5th-6th centuries, Buddhism was introduced to Funan (early Cambodia), where both Mahayana and Theravada Buddhism were practiced; in the 6th century, Funan was renamed Chenla, and both Mahayana Buddhism and Hinduism existed in the country, which is clearly reflected in the religious ceremonies and many of the palaces at Angkor from the 9th to the 12th centuries, and Theravada Buddhism was introduced in the mid-14th century, when Cambodia was turned into a vassal state of Thailand. Later, Theravada Buddhism was imported from Cambodia to Laos. From the 5th century onwards, Buddhism began to spread to Sumatra, Java and Bali in Indonesia. According to the account of the Chinese monk Yi Jing, Hinayana Buddhism prevailed in the islands of Indonesia in the middle of the 7th century, and later the dynasties practiced Mahayana Buddhism and Hinduism; Islam began to flourish in the 15th century. Around the beginning of the Gregorian calendar, Buddhism was introduced to China. During the Han Dynasty, it was regarded as a form of divine magic. During the Northern and Southern Dynasties, it spread throughout the country and many schools of thought emerged. During the Sui and Tang dynasties, Buddhism entered its heyday and many sects with Chinese national characteristics were formed. After the Song Dynasty, the various schools of Buddhism tended to merge, and at the same time the contradictions between Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism gradually disappeared. 7~8th century Buddhism was introduced to Tibet, China from India and the Han Chinese area, and formed the Tibetan-speaking Buddhism in the middle of the 10th century, and then it was spread to Sichuan, Qinghai, Gansu, Mongolia, and the area inhabited by the Mongols in Buryatia, Russia. Around the end of the 2nd century, Buddhism was introduced from China to Vietnam. It spread widely in the 4th and 5th centuries and flourished in the 10th and 14th centuries. Thai and Burmese Buddhism also influenced Vietnamese Buddhism. In the second half of the 4th century, Buddhism was introduced from China to Goguryeo in Korea, and after the unification of the Korean Peninsula by the Silla Dynasty in the 7th century, Huayan, Dharma Sect, Ruler's Sect, and Zen Sect, which were introduced from China, flourished, with Zen Sect flourishing in the later years, and the Koryeo Tripitaka (Goryeo Collection) was published at the end of the 14th century. It began to decline after the middle of the 17th century and was revitalized in modern times. In the 6th century, Buddhism was introduced to Japan from China via Korea, and has been the main religion of Japan ever since; at the beginning of the 7th century, Prince Shotoku demanded in the Seventeen Articles of the Constitution that all his subjects "convert to the Three Jewels". From the Sui and Tang dynasties in China, Japan sent a large number of monks to study in China, and the main sects of Chinese Buddhism were introduced to Japan. 12 centuries later, many nationalized sects of Buddhism were formed in Japan. Buddhism was spread to Syria and Egypt during the time of King Ashoka in India, and later to some parts of Africa, but its influence was not great. Around the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, Buddhism was introduced to Europe and North America, and in 1906, when the British Buddhist Association was established in England, European Buddhists began to have their own organizations. In 1906, the British Buddhist Association was established in England, and European Buddhists began to have their own organizations. Later, there were Buddhist monastic orders and research institutions in England, France, Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and other countries. After Buddhism was introduced to the United States, it spread to Canada in the north and to Brazil, Peru, Argentina and other countries in the south. At present Buddhism has spread to all continents of the world. However, it is still mainly concentrated in East Asia and Southeast Asia, the number of Buddhist believers in this region far exceeds the number of believers in other religions.