[Buddha-l] the existence of God in Buddhism

[Richard Hayes]

On Friday 25 August 2006 19:49, Vicente Gonzalez wrote:

> and no Buddhist philosopher cites those conversations between
> Buddha and Brahma in this problem?

The issue of interest to Buddhists was whether the world of 
phenomena had all issued from one source. Buddhists claimed that 
the answer was No. This denial that all the world came from once 
source led to Buddhists denying that all the word issued from 
brahman, prakriti, purusha or ishvara (usually translated as God). 

Of course one can deny that there is a single creator of the whole 
world without denying that there are devas living in celestial 
realms.

-- 
Richard Hayes
Department of Philosophy
University of New Mexico