Brahma (Buddhisme): Perbedaan antara revisi

Asal-usul Brahma dalam agama Buddha dan agama-agama India lainnya tidak pasti, sebagian karena beberapa kata yang terkait seperti satu untuk Realitas Tertinggi [[Metafisika|metafisik]] ([[Brahman]]), dan pendeta ([[Brahmana]]) ditemukan dalam kepustakaan Weda. Menurut KN Jayatilleke, [[Regweda]] menyatakan skeptis mengenai dewa-dewa utama seperti [[Indra]] apakah dia memang ada,<ref>{{cite book|author=KN Jayatilleke|title=Early Buddhist Theory of Knowledge|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zcs41sp8ON4C |year=1998|publisher=Motilal Banarsidass|isbn=978-81-208-0619-1 |pages=24 with footnote 2}}, Quote: "What evidence is there for the existence of Indra unless someone has seen him? One stanza in a hymn says, 'One and another say, there is no Indra. Who hath beheld him? Whom then shall we honor?' - Rigveda 8.100.3, in Griffith: 8.89.3"</ref> serta apakah [[alam semesta]] memiliki sesosok pencipta dan dapatkah ini diketahui, sebagaimana ditunjukkan dalam buku kedelapan dan kesepuluh, khususnya dalam [[Nasadiya Sukta]].<ref name="Jayatilleke1998p21">{{cite book|author=KN Jayatilleke|title=Early Buddhist Theory of Knowledge|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zcs41sp8ON4C |year=1998|publisher=Motilal Banarsidass|isbn=978-81-208-0619-1 |pages=21, 24 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=James Thrower|title=The Alternative Tradition: Religion and the Rejection of Religion in the Ancient World|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xpXfiGyGbYEC |year=1980|publisher=Walter de Gruyter|isbn=978-90-279-7997-1 |pages=40, 43–44 }}</ref>

Nyanyian rohani Weda akhir telah mulai menanyakan hakikat pengetahuan yang sejati dan sahih, verifikasi empiris, dan realitas absolut.<ref>{{cite book|author=KN Jayatilleke|title=Early Buddhist Theory of Knowledge|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zcs41sp8ON4C |year=1998|publisher=Motilal Banarsidass|isbn=978-81-208-0619-1 |pages=24, 27–28 }} Quote: "Here for the first time there is an expression of doubt about the possibility of knowing certain things and a dim awareness that some sort of evidence was necessary before we can afford to make factual assertions. What evidence is there for the existence of Indra unless someone has seen him? (...)"</ref> Upanisad awal dibangun di atas tema ini, sementara secara paralel muncul Buddhisme, [[Jainisme]], dan tradisi skeptis lainnya. Agama Buddha menggunakan istilah Brahma untuk menyangkal sesosok pencipta dan juga untuk menempatkannya (dan dewa-dewa lain seperti Indra) pada posisi yang tidak sepenting Buddha.<ref>{{cite book|author=KN Jayatilleke|title=Early Buddhist Theory of Knowledge|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zcs41sp8ON4C |year=1998|publisher=Motilal Banarsidass|isbn=978-81-208-0619-1 |pages=21, 24, 27–28 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=[[Antonio T. de Nicolás]]|title=Meditations Through the Rig Veda: Four-Dimensional Man|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t7mNaMDu6o0C&pg=PA68 |year=2003|publisher= iUniverse|isbn=978-0-595-26925-9 |pages=68–70 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=James Thrower|title=The Alternative Tradition: Religion and the Rejection of Religion in the Ancient World|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xpXfiGyGbYEC |year=1980|publisher=Walter de Gruyter|isbn=978-90-279-7997-1 |pages=35–46 }}</ref>