Well, I guess both Hinduism and Buddhist have lots in common. Buddhism came in much late, and is more modern and scientific. Hinduism is old, degenerated with time, mainly perhaps, priests misused it. Both are practiced in two ways?one, more in terms of cultural, like visiting temples, and doing some puja to get blessings and of course Prasads. And, another, in term of understanding their deep philosophical teachings, which we rarely do. The stuffs like Geeta and Purans, I guess, are meant to teach us things like meaning of life. Yoga, a part of hinduism, is a kind of meditation that teaches us controlling our mind and body to make one self happy. And, in Buddhism, also, people do lots of puja, just like in hindu. We see that in Budhhist temples, and Bahas in KTM, lots of puja happens there. In Thailand, a budhhist kingdom, people not only worship Buddha, they also worship living monks, who preach Buddhism. It is quite normal there to have pictures of living monks hanging side by side with a picture of their king, in places like restaurants and shops. These monks then have great influence in their daily life. For example, PM and other top business man in Thailand regularly visit these widely respected monks to get blessings during election time, and before starting business. At least, in Nepal, there is no such thing like worshipping and following any monk. We hang picture of budhha's only. I guess in Nepal, we are just ignorant of religions, we are never taught what religions are all about, except for listening to interesting stories, or visiting temples.