Hindu and Buddhist Thought in SiddharthaSiddhartha, set in India, is subtitled "Indian poetic work" and clearly owes much to Indian religions. But the question of the exact nature of Hesse's debt to various aspects of Indian Siddhartha religion and philosophy is quite complex and deserves detailed discussion. This essay will discuss the elements of Hindu and Buddhist thought present in Siddhartha and make distinctions between them. “Siddhartha is one of the names of the historical Gotama” (Noss 213), the life of Hesse's character Siddhartha resembles that of his historical counterpart. to a certain extent. Siddhartha is by no means a fictional life of Buddha, but it contains many references to Buddha and his teachings. “Buddha's basic teaching is formulated in the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path” (Gupta 17). Based on the principle that suffering exists and that we must find a way to free ourselves from it, Buddha constructed his system. The First Noble Truth is the fact of suffering. The Second Truth is that suffering arises from human desire for something and that desire can never be satisfied. The third truth is that there is a way to freedom from suffering. And the Fourth Truth prescribes how to overcome suffering and attain true knowledge. The first two stages of the Eightfold Path, which leads to the cessation of suffering, are right understanding and right resolution; a person must first discover and experience the correctness of the Four Noble Truths (it is not enough to profess a superficial belief), and then resolve to follow the right path. The following three stages also form a kind of unity: right speech, right behavior, a...... middle of paper ......University Press, Princeton: 1991.Gupta, Hari, Buddhism in India . Princeton University Press, Princeton: 1964. Heinrich Dumoulin, Zen Buddhism: A History. Volume 1: India and China. Macmillan, New York: 1988. Hesse, Herman. Siddhartha. Dover Publications, 1998. King, Sallie B., Buddha Nature. State University of New York Press, Albany: 1991. Klostermaier, Klaus K. A Survey of Hinduism. Albany, NY: SUNY Albany Press, 1994. Matta, Eva. “Dynamic Hinduism” Ed. David Westerlund. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996. 237-258. Noss, David S. and John B. Noss. World religions. New York: Macmilllan College Publishing Company 1994. Shaw, Leroy, “The Time and Structure of Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha,” Symposium 9 (1957): 204-224. Timpe, Eugene F. “The Hesse Siddhartha and the Bhagavad Gita ". Comparative literature, V.22 No.4 , 1970.