2006-08-07 00:58:51 · 8 answers · asked by a_latinalady 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
No angels in Buddhism - but Devatha's - he concept is very much different to Angels - this talks about beings from other dimensions / plaines. Buddha describes 32 such Dimensions - some good and others bad.
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thank you for these type of questions - bored with stupid questions in this section !
2006-08-07 01:12:13 · answer #1 · answered by R G 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bhuddhism is diverse ... In some of the Japanese Bhuddhism of Zen, you find some fusions with the earlier Shintoism(Japan's earlier shamanism)... with consequent Bhoddhisatvas and dhyanis which are very similar to an angelology ... similarly Tibetan Bhuddhism was a fusion of Bhuddhism to the local Tibetan animism of the Bon... and likewise a cosmogeny involving dhyanis, chohans and bhodhisatvas ...
And the latter question ...Yes, in the sense that we are all the tributaries of a single source .. and that multiple dimensional cosmos may be arranged in layers towards our accreted and earthy plane ... Yes, there is room in my cosmogeny to believe that such conduits may exist ..and that evoluting over vast periods of time ..we may even eventually replace them .. that in turn they are freed to osmose higher .. this tends to be an ancestral belief pattern that you can find comparatively over wide disparate beliefs .. including even in some cases - voodoo, and sufism ...
additionally: don't allow a Westerner who has grafted themself to "one branch" of Bhuddhism pretend to speak for all of it's branches ..
2006-08-07 08:13:59 · answer #2 · answered by gmonkai 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not sure about Buddhists, but this happened to me.
Several years ago I had an unusual experience concerning an uncle, a distant relative who lived over a thousand miles away.
While driving my car I suddenly felt the unmistakable presence of this relative that I hardly even knew. He was more like someone I had heard about than someone I knew. It was very strange; it felt as though I was momentarily lifted right out of my physical body. I seemed to be suspended somehow beyond space and time, bathed in a love so intense It felt like I could have just disappear into it at any moment if It would have let me. It only lasted for a few seconds, but it seemed to last forever at the same time. I realize how crazy this must sound. The experience was so strong that at first I was afraid I was loosing my grip on reality. I finally managed to chalk it up to an over active imagination.
Three days later I got a call from my aunt telling me that this uncle we are talking about had gone into a coma and died the day I had the experience. It felt like ice water had been poured down my back when she told me this. I had lost any real ideas of God or faith and had become somewhat of an atheist. Needless to say this experience caused me to rethink some of the conclusions I had come to.
I feel blessed to now understand that even in our darkest confusion something loves us so much that it went out of its way to assist me and bring me back to a state of absolute certainty about Gods love for us.
During the experience it seemed like there was a vast amount of information that I was somehow allowed access to. One thing that I came away from this experience understanding beyond any shadow of a doubt was that any Idea that God is unhappy with us or would judge or allow us to be punished for any reason is simply impossible.
I can’t explain the love I felt with words. They simply don’t make words big enough or complete enough to do this. The only way I can begin to convey this love to you is to say that there was simply nothing else there. Nothing but love. No hint of judgment, no displeasure of any sort. It is as though God sees us as being as perfect as we were the day we were created. It is only in our confused idea of ourselves that we seem to have changed.
I hope this is of some help to you. Good luck. Love and blessings.
Your brother don
2006-08-07 08:04:52 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am Christian and believe in angels. I believe that I have seen one as a human. I have seen the action of them.
2006-08-07 08:04:24 · answer #4 · answered by RB 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They believe in spirits, and ghosts.
Angels are not far from that......I do believe in angels.
If we are worthy of Heaven, we will be God's childrens: just like the angels.
2006-08-07 08:08:36 · answer #5 · answered by lam_9 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God createdhuman from mud,jinss from smokeless fire and angels from light.They are sexless/has no feeling of desire as human and jinn.U will see them when the hereafter has arrive
2006-08-07 08:11:17 · answer #6 · answered by fadil z 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Buddhists don't believe in believing and neither do I.
2006-08-07 08:04:00 · answer #7 · answered by beast 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God created angels.read the Bible but beware, not all of them are "nice"....
2006-08-07 08:14:40 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋