(Thus the representation of the Buddha as the compassionate one.) In the teachings of the Buddha are found more than a mere glimmer of the doctrines contained in the Upanishads, and to some extent he can be seen as resuscitating the earliest philosophical teachings of Hinduism. However, the Buddha articulated more specific principles of philosophical thought, such as the law of dependent origination, or the idea that there is nothing permanent in the empirical self.  