Are Buddhist polytheism or monotheisem?
Neither. Buddhism does not depend on the existence of a God who
created the universe. Instead Buddhism chooses to focus upon
practical ways of life that can lead to a blissful state of being
(enlightenment). However, at the same time, Buddha did not rule out
the existence of a God or gods altogether. With the growth and
spread of Buddhism, local deities and religious practices were
included in it. Today, Tibetan Buddhist cosmology talks about a
large number of 'Divine Beings', believed to be representative of
the psychic life. One of the six realms of the Tibetan cosmology is
the realm of Gods, who must take birth on earth as humans to attain
enlightenment. Essentially though Buddha was simply a teacher and
an agnostic. To read more on how Buddhism differs to traditional
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