1. Mahatma Buddha preached very simple teachings and followers adopted them very easily. 

He streesed on four noble truths 

(i) The world is full of sorrows 

(ii) The cause of sorrow is desire 

(iii) Conquer sorrow by conquering desire 

(iv) Desire can be conquered by eight fold path. 

2. The eight fold path: 

(i) Right Belief 

(ii) Right thought, 

(iii) Right speech, 

(iv) Right Action, 

(v) Right means of livelihood, 

(vi) Right effort, 

(vii) Right Recollection, 

(viii) Right Meditation. 

3. One should not hurt living beings with action, speech or heart. Killing animals and animals sacrifice is a sin. To show love and sympathy with others and follow the non-violence. 

4. It accepts the karma theory, one gets result of his present actions in the next birth. Do good get good results and do bad to get bad results. To have better future one has to do good deeds. 

5. The main aim of an individual is to attain nibbana. He would not want to indugle himself in the quarrel of heaven or hell. One who attains Nibbana gets away from the cycle of birth and death. 

6. He did not believe in worship of God, and Goddess. He remained mum in the regard of authority of God. According to him, an authority exists which runs the universe, it is Dharma instead of God. The sacrifice of animals is a useless rituals and customs. He discarded the theory of Hinduism that Moksha can be attained by it. The chanting of mantras was considered useless. 

7. According to his views about vedas and Sanskrit, were very much different from the Hinduism. True knowledge might be given in any language. He rejected to accept Sanskrit as more sacred than other languages. No more importance was given to vedas. 

8. He did not believe in discrimination on the caste system. All human beings are equal and no one to be considered superior or inferior on caste basis. He did not favour of stricts meditation. Nothing could be attained by not eating or drinking anything. Staying in the family life one could attain nibbana.