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Budda faith

I thought that the Budda faith included a believe in a supreme being.  Is this true?

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Dee
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 a religion of eastern and central Asia growing out of the teaching of Gautama Buddha that suffering is inherent in life and that one can be liberated from it by mental and moral self-purification

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Ol' Yeddar
Ol' Yeddar Answered:

The Four Noble Truths are beliefs that underly most of Buddhist epistemology. They are:

 

 

1. The nature of suffering : Birth, aging, illness and death are suffering, as is attachment and aversion.

2. The origin of suffering : craving for things we think will bring us pleasure.

3. The cessation of suffering : freedom from attachment and aversion.

4. The way leading to the cessation of suffering : The eightfold path includes right view, right intention, right speech, right action, right livlihood, right effort, right mindfulness and right concentration.

Buddhism, in my understanding, is nihilistic, and not monothestic, polytheistic, or panthestic.

JayR

Keep close to Nature's heart... climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.* Victims of circumstance owe it to fate. Victims of choice owe it to themselves. *Band of One.
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chris McCawley
chris McCawley Answered:

Hi Shirley- There are as many(and more) types of Buddhism as there are Christianity. There is a belief in a special being in Buddhism. It is possibly more a world soul or a logos like the word in the gospel of John. In general our meaning of the words "supreme" and "being"(which we very closely tie to "doing" )are differently understood in eastern religions. Sometimes we see our western Christian God as a supreme "doer" A very special servant that will fetch us things. Buddhism might believe there is a "supreme be er( yes I see the joke) and might be content that "God" is. A Zen Buddhist would say "there is no Zen master,there is only Zen. Did that help?-CVM

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