Re: From Meluhha To Pakistan: The Embodiment Of A Civilization
The same Wikipedia that you quote also states that, “The concepts of Adi-Buddha and Dharmakaya are the closest to monotheism any form of Buddhism comes.”
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Buddhism is not polytheistic as Nagarjuna the Indian Buddhist philosopher of the 2nd century CE expressed a commonly shared Buddhist view about the gods (in plural) when he wrote:
The gods are all eternal scoundrels
Incapable of dissolving the suffering of impermanence.
Those who serve them and venerate them
May even in this world sink into a sea of sorrow.
We know the gods are false and have no concrete being;
Therefore the wise man believes them not
The fate of the world depends on causes and conditions
Therefore the wise man many not rely on gods.
[Lamotte trans. I, p.141]