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** Buddhism: The basic beliefs of early Buddhism, which remain common to all Buddhists, are the "four noble truths": existence is suffering (dukhka); suffering has a cause, namely craving and attachment (trishna); there is a cessation of suffering, which is nirvana; and there is a path to the cessation of suffering, the "eightfold path" of right views, right resolve, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, and right concentration. Buddhism characteristically describes reality in terms of process and relation rather than entity or substance.
 * ===** Basic Beliefs: **=== The Khmer's basic beliefs were mainly focused of Hinduism and Buddhism.

Experience is analyzed into five aggregates (skandhas). The first, form (rupa), refers to material existence; the following four, sensations (vedana), perceptions (samjna), psychic constructs (samskara), and consciousness (vijnana), refer to psychological processes. The main Buddhist teaching of non-self (anatman) asserts that in the five aggregates no independent existent, of an immutable self, or soul, can be found. The casual conditions are defined in a 12-membered chain called dependent origination, which are: ignorance, predisposition, consciousness, name-form, the senses, contact, craving, grasping, becoming, birth, old age, and death, and again ignorance. **

**Hinduism: The first phase of Hinduism was early Brahmanism, the religion of the priests or Brahmans who performed the Vedic sacrifice, Which is basically the power in which relations with the gods and the cosmos is created. The Veda comprises interpretation of sacrifice and culminates in the Upanishads (mystical and speculative ancient writings that state the doctrine of Brahman) the absolute reality that is the self of all things, plus its relationship with the individual soul.

Post-Vedic Hinduism in all its forms accepts the doctrine of karma, according in which the person reaps the consequences for his good and bad actions through a series of lifetimes. Also universally accepted is the goal of moksha or mukti, liberation from suffering and from the compulsion to rebirth, which is attainable through elimination of passions and through knowledge of reality and finally union with God.**

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