The Buddha did not claim to be in any way divine, nor does Buddhism involve the idea of a personal god. The Buddha suggested that it was fear that produced the religious impulse in humanity.

Definitions Hinduism: The religion, native to India, includes a belief in reincarnation and the existence of a Supreme God whose qualities and attributes can appear in many forms. These include ...

Unlike Hinduism or other religions, Buddhism does not have a central god. That doesn’t mean they’re opposed to a god, they just don’t have reasons to have a god. Most religions are rigid as ...

Supernatural beings are prominent in Tibetan Buddhism. Buddhas and bodhisattvas abound, gods and spirits taken from earlier Tibetan religions continue to be taken seriously. Bodhisattvas are ...

All the images of the gods of the planets and the Hindu gods ... and the same Burmese will observe the Buddhist religious days and perform deeds of merit in preparation for the countless ...

The four patches show the Four Heavenly Kings, protector deities in Buddhism who guard against evil forces in the four ...

Lao Buddhism is closely connected to spirits; and Sri Lankan religious practice is integrated with Hindu gods and demons. These distinctions only begin to reveal a rich diversity of traditions ...

This cleansing consecrated the Buddha-to-be as holy, signaling that even the gods recognized him as ... which frowned upon Buddhist religious practices and ended in 1910. Buddhist reformers ...

Buddhism is the most common religious identity in China ... Allah or Tianzhu (the word Chinese Catholics use for God), according to the CFPS survey. Only 16% of Chinese adults believe exclusively in ...

or Guan Gong (关公), commonly venerated as the god of wealth, as examples of folk religion. In addition, scholars have noted that practitioners of folk religion sometimes refer to all forms of folk ...