Buddhism does not believe in God. In some ways it is more like a philosophy than a religion, and yet its reverence for the Buddha is so great that the Buddha has become like a god in many versions ...

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 ...

There is no Ishwara or God in Buddhism (or Jainism). Buddhism is a non-theistic religion, meaning it doesn't recognise a creator god or a deity who intervenes in the world. Instead, it focuses on ...

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 ...

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 ...