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Why does hinduism declare Gautam Buddha god, even when he said there is no god?

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There are a lot of misconceptions of what the the questions were that the Buddha refused to answer. The exisitence of a creator god is not one of them.

    Quote from: Buddhism and the God-idea

    Quite contradictory views have been expressed in Western literature on the attitude of Buddhism toward the concept of God and gods. From a study of the discourses of the Buddha preserved in the Pali canon, it will be seen that the idea of a personal deity, a creator god conceived to be eternal and omnipotent, is incompatible with the Buddha's teachings. On the other hand, conceptions of an impersonal godhead of any description, such as world-soul, etc., are excluded by the Buddha's teachings on Anatta, non-self or unsubstantiality.


So it is clear that the Buddha did deny god.

During the decline of Buddhism as a religion in India there was a good reason for the resurgent Hindu religion to assimilate Buddhist views into their own. The easiest way to do so would be to declare the Buddha as an avatar of Vishnu.

This is not a view held by all Hindus and quite naturally denied by the Buddhist. Though I do wish, if the Hindus do consider the Buddha to be an incarnation of Vishnu, they should have no problems putting his teachings into practise.

However at the same time, the puranas which incorporate the Buddha as an incarnation, say his teachings were meant to delude demons, thus calling all followers of Buddhism as demons.

To me this appears as a master political stroke to include the adherants of the then dominant religion into a resurgent one.



Ashutosh Pandey, The idea of India fascinates me...I've been living it for decades


People tend to confuse between the Idea of Parmatma and Bhagwana in Hinduism. In Hindu traditions Buddha is commonly referred to as Bhagwan i.e. the beholder of good qualities (Bhag-good waan- beholder). The term God can be better identified with the notion of Parmatma;which literally means the universal soul. Hinduism believes in the presence of multiple truths and respects difference of opinions. Coming to the second part of your question; Buddha never denounced the existence of God, instead he preferred to remain silent on the questions on meta-physical entities like god. Interestingly Mimansa, which is considered an orthodox ritualistic Vedic philosophy does not beleive in existence of god as-well.

Johnny Bob Smith., Sant Mat. I experience, the Inner Light and Sound of the Lord, through his di...


Buddhism, due to its strong beliefs that the Lord is emptiness, is considered to deny any existence of the God and the Atman/Soul, as well as the idea of Moksha and the soul reuniting with Brahman. Rubbish!! Of course, there is a God and Soul in Buddhism, as we explained Brahman/Atman(as the Atman is a part of God or Brahman), is nothing!! Plus the soul, experiences nothing when reunited with Brahman(as Brahman is nothing), so the Buddhist Nirvana and Hindu Moksha are united!! I mean Heaven, Such Khand, Brahman and Nirvana are all the same, as all faiths lead to the same god!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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