Hinduism and Buddhism

Hinduism cannot live without Buddhism, nor Buddhism without Hinduism. 

Then realize what the separation has shown to us, that the Buddhists cannot stand without the brain and philosophy of the Brahmins, nor the Brahmin without the heart of the Buddhist. 

This separation between the Buddhists and the Brahmins is the cause of the downfall of India. 

That is why India is populated by three hundred millions of beggars, and that is why India has been the slave of conquerors for the last thousand years. 

Let us then join the wonderful intellect of the Brahmins with the heart, the noble soul, the wonderful humanising power of the Great Master [Buddha].

- Swami Vivekananda 

at Parliament of Religions, Chicago