As Gautama Buddha taught that there is no creator god and any creation-related stuff is ignorant?
2007-01-26 17:56:51 · 4 answers · asked by FAUUFDDaa 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_in_Buddhism
2007-01-26 18:14:51 · update #1
Well, nobody cites their source...
2007-01-26 18:19:33 · update #2
There are Mahayana and Hinayana... different
2007-01-26 18:22:20 · update #3
That nirvana part dont make sense. Buddhist are better then abrahamic boys and girls.
2007-01-26 18:02:55 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
That is not exactly what Buddhism teaches.
Buddhists take refuge in the Triple Gem (Three Jewels) - the Buddhas (there are countless Buddhas), the Dharma (the Buddhas' teachings that lead to enlightenment), and the Sangha (the community of Dharma practitioners, which includes humans and gods, who have attained at least the first spiritual fruit on the path to enlightenment).
Traditionally, Buddhists take refuge in all three aspects of the Triple Gem collectively. This is true, other than the Buddha's several first disciples, who took refuge only in the Buddha and the Dharma he taught - in the absence of the Sangha, that was formed shortly after - at the end of the first sermon. Yet in a way, the Buddha himself was already the perfect embodiment of all three aspects of the Triple Gem.
The (historical) Buddha as a spiritual refuge is obviously not a god or a creator God (which Buddhism does not subscribes to - as it believes we collectively create and re-create the world continually through karma). But one of the traditional titles of the Buddha is "Teacher of humans and gods". He declared himself to be wholly spiritually purified and perfected, to be faultless, to be one who had transcended both human and godly limitations. In the spiritual and physical sense, every Buddha is equally supreme to each other, and are thus "God-like" - in a very loose sense of the word.
Not exactly Atheism.
2007-01-27 02:15:37 · answer #2 · answered by MyPreshus 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
NO! Buddha taught no such thing, Buddha taught that God is not
something we can truly comprehend or understand and as such is not what we should attempt to control our daily lives by, but that we should rise up and be noble and kind and serving as we
were obviously intended to be
2007-01-27 02:10:58 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
There are similarities, but, no, Buddhists are not Athiests.
2007-01-27 02:04:35 · answer #4 · answered by S K 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋