The creation of mankind according to Buddhist?

Answer 1

Buddhism has not said any thing about how was man created, but Buddhism has answered it indirectly. Buddha has given a law known as `the law of dependent origination. according to this Law a thing will happen if the required circumstances are there, for example if water is heated it will change into vapour and if heat is taken away from vapour it will again change into awter.here heat is the required item for the circumstance. Buddhism accepts what science say about how man was created. Man was evolved from apes and still manhas been evolving anatomically and functionally. Buddhism never accepts man was created by God, why because Buddhism rejected the existence of God and Soul.

Buddhism has not said any thing about how was man created, but Buddhism has answered it indirectly. Buddha has given a law known as `the law of dependent origination. according to this Law a thing will happen if the required circumstances are there, for example if water is heated it will change into vapour and if heat is taken away from vapour it will again change into awter.here heat is the required item for the circumstance. Buddhism accepts what science say about how man was created. Man was evolved from apes and still manhas been evolving anatomically and functionally. Buddhism never accepts man was created by God, why because Buddhism rejected the existence of God and Soul.

Answer 2

It's quite long to be explained clearly, but i'll try to summarize things so anyone without Buddhism background can understand.

It is explained in the Sutta Pitaka, precisely in the Aganna Sutta.

The beings from Abhassara Brahma World got reborn in our human world.

At first, they were self-luminous, feeding on delight, moving through the air, and there were no separation between day and night, no moon or sun appeared, no male and female, they were just reckoned as beings.

To make it short, what they ate resulting in the disappearance of their light, and the formation of their body, including genital.

And so on...

Answer 3

Everything is dependent on cause and effect.

Nothing occurs independently of the law of cause and effect in this world (or universe).

The Buddha had clearly expounded this law.

According to the Buddha's explanation, we can say that mankind comes into existence due to the 'cause'. It is very simple. The existence of mankind is merely the effect of the cause in samsara, an endlessly long cycle of rebirth and death. The samsara is so long that we are absolutely unable to observe countless causes.

The Buddha did not further explain this process in a more complicated or deeper way like the other religions, because it is not the essence or goal of Buddhism. The essence of Buddhism is to attain Nirvana. But such beliefs of mankind existence are much useless for humans to attain Nirvana and they can cause a lot of controversy among different people of so many different opinions.

[ At the beginning of every world, humans were reborn directly into the human plane of existence from the plane of existence of 'Brahmas'. Later, humans are reborn through the wombs of (human) mothers. ]

So, knowing that the mankind existence is the cause of the effect, is really enough for a good Buddhist.

Answer 4

Creation myths do not exist in Buddhism as they do in the Abrahamic faiths, in part this is due to the absence of a deity to do the creating. There are broad areas of speculation which do not lead to any fruitful outcome and a re a waste of one's effort to ponder on. There is a supposed tale of Buddhism where a man is shot with an arrow, the wound is deep and potentially fatal. However every time the doctor initiates treatment he demands answers to questions like who shot m, who made his bow, who trained him, what smith forged the arrowheads. As can be expected, before all of his "important" questions can be answered, he dies, The moral is that i is more important to get on with what must be done than to seek useless knowledge.

The other consideration is that, as there are numerous levels of existence and worlds, the answers you would gather are only applicable for this particular location and not universal solutions.

Answer 5

Buddha (Siddhartha Gautama) was born in the sixth century BCE in Lumbini and raised in the small kingdom or principality of Kapilvastu, both of which are in modern day Nepal.

Answer 6

The creation of mankind according to Buddhist philosophy is sort of a disappearing act. According to Buddhist thinking, world systems appear and reappear over and over.