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Post by Aj_June on Mar 20, 2017 4:15:11 GMT
Tibetan and some other Buddhist mythologies are partly derived from Hinduism. In many cases they just change the name of the deities. Sometimes, they don't even do that. Like they have got goddess Tara and so have Hindus. But much of Tibetan Buddhist mythology is derived from the pre-Buddhist Bon religion. When atheists here claim Buddhism is an atheistic religion, I can't help but think of Tibet and roll my eyes. Some of them may be but yes, Vajrayana (Tibetan Buddhism) places such a high importance on gods and goddesses and realms of hell and heaven that I would see them more theistic than atheistic even if they don't have concept of a creator god. Bhutan also follows Tibetan Buddhism and when I visited Bhutan, I saw deity worship as their core practice. Though most of those deities were derived from Hinduism. |
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