[Buddha-l] the existence of God in Buddhism

[Richard Hayes]

On Wednesday 23 August 2006 22:00, Wong Weng Fai wrote:

> On Wed, 23 Aug 2006, Ilana Maymind wrote:
> > I wonder if anyone could comment on the highlighted?
>
> A lot of the gods in Hinduism can be found in Buddhism. Do they count as
> supernatural divinities? Also, Buddhas and Bodhisattvas have supernatural
> powers and are beyond our realms. Do these count? I hope the others on
> this forum can help me out as it is so important to be defined as a
> religion or else everything Buddhist will collapse!!! *NOT!*

Many of these issues are discussed in an article I wrote many years ago. The 
title of the article was "Principled atheism in tyhe Budhist tradition." It 
can be read by going to http://www.unm.edu/~rhayes/atheism.pdf


-- 
Richard P. Hayes
Department of Philosophy
University of New Mexico
http://www.unm.edu/~rhayes