user17418: In Islam the God is Allah, in Christianity the God is Jehovah and Jesus Christ. Is the God in Buddhism Buddha? I think it is very misleading to say that the name of the God in Buddhism is Buddha! Buddha is not a God's name but Buddha is rather an enlightenment condition. Does Buddhism have a particular God? My ultimate question is whether Buddhism was made by God or humans.

user16667: I used to be a Buddhist back in my teens. I was angry with God and always telling him about my day and talking to him on my way back from primary school. Messed up, right?
Here’s the kicker, Siddartha’s birth coincided in a time when Hinduism was about to be taken too literally. You know Ganesh, the god with an elephant’s face? They were about to kill anyone who thought of it as a metaphor, that Ganesh was a man with an elephant’s memory, gentle strength and loving soul. That Shiva really had 50 hands instead of seeing her as a frighteningly competent multitasker. That sort of thing.
So Siddartha was sent to break the idolatries of Hinduism. Instead of gods, he focused on philosophy as best as he could. Try as he might, it was powerless to prevent his followers from embellishing it in a multitude of variations that make nothing cohesive. I know this because I read that I could leave Buddhism if I found a better religion.
You know what is the bitterest liquor you can taste? That man can never be free from the curse of forming idols in his head, even if it is called “I lack belief in a god or gods”. That very thing then becomes it’s own morality, with an umbilical cord to the rightness and wrongness. All feelings and decisions made on this premise as if it were a less intimidating force of nature, the most powerful horse that he has the heart to break, so that he can shut out the ghostly hauntings of his sweetest dreams and memories that take the soul back to preludes of time and spaces, of kisses and betrayals, blood spilled and flesh eaten while alive. Why else can’t man defeat the urge to slap a vulnerable woman who also needs a powerful idol to break her own curses?
As a Freethinker since childhood and one other thing when I came of age, I have come to terms with Buddhism. It gets you half way there, to your bliss. The other half must be searched from calling out to the darkness of our existence, to see if anything came back to life again from sacrificial condemnation. Some make a choice and some don’t want to. It is our life. Beyond lies the supreme redemption. Go blessed by my failures.

user16489: The world we see is limited to animals and humans. But according to Buddha, world is consists of 31 different realms. Those including human world, animal world, God's world etc.
So if you have done karma which cause you to be born in heaven you will also be a god. 
And in buddhism it's clearly explains that the time in the heavens are longer than ours. It's like 1 year of human world is one day for them (I can't remember the exact numbers). And that goes higher when the heaven is also a higher one (something like 100 humans years = one heaven day). So when someone born in that kind of heaven they think that's permanent. Because they are there from the beginning of the world. They don't know that at the end of the world they are also going to die. 
Buddha is the one who understand all these, and how this world works. It's all based on paticcasamuppada explained in the core buddhism. Understanding all these what buddha advised to all is: don't try to go to heaven, because it won't save you for ever, it just save you for sometime only (yes that can be a long time but that's not forever). Once you have finished your business there you have to come back to other worlds as well, and you may even go to hell later. So Buddha found a way to stop all that which is called Nirvana. Important thing on that is it gives you ultimate happiness as well.
I hope this answer clears your confusion on God view of Buddhism.

user-1: I believe Buddhism is non-theistic, especially if we take 'God' in the usual Western sense. It simply doesn't work with the concept of creator God (gods are also trapped in samsara) and rather invites you to experience the nature of ultimate reality for yourself. The Great Beyond is beyond all concepts and thoughts. The moment you try to speak about it, you are already wrong (including me right now, typing these words). Therefore Buddhism doesn't go into describing the Absolute, but instead tries to remove the poison, so that you can see the nature of reality for yourself. It is a very apophatic approach, a very direct method of experiencing the Absolute. I believe the Parable of the Poisoned Arrow is very relevant when it comes to the above mentioned approach. 
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_Poisoned_Arrow
Buddhism is man made in the sense that Buddha was a man. But he was no ordinary man ofc, as he achieved Buddhahood, i. e. recognizing his true nature, the buddha-nature, which is inherent in all the living beings. Discovering your true nature, the buddha-nature, is how one can experience the ultimate reality.

user16635: Buddhism is agnostic: it makes no claims about the existence (or non-existence) of any god. The Buddhas (for there were several aside from the eponymous Gautama) were merely those who are sufficiently awake to see the human condition, and to prescribe the remedy for what ails us all. Don't make more of it than you need to.
Of course, there are those who see Buddha as a kind of divinity. That is fine to the extent that that is what they need to make sense of the Buddhist path. It makes no difference in the long run, because Buddhists do not seek 'truth.' They seek liberation, and bondage to the 'truth' can be as restrictive as anything else. 
If a god exists, then we are one with it, and Buddhist practice is the way to realize that unity. If no god exists, then Buddhist practice is the way to realize who we are. It's not something we need to worry about.

17418: <p>In Islam the God is Allah, in Christianity the God is Jehovah and Jesus Christ. Is the God in Buddhism Buddha? I think it is very misleading to say that the name of the God in Buddhism is Buddha! Buddha is not a God's name but Buddha is rather an enlightenment condition. Does Buddhism have a particular God? My ultimate question is whether Buddhism was made by God or humans.</p>
 16667: <p>I used to be a Buddhist back in my teens. I was angry with God and always telling him about my day and talking to him on my way back from primary school. Messed up, right?</p>

<p>Here’s the kicker, Siddartha’s birth coincided in a time when Hinduism was about to be taken too literally. You know Ganesh, the god with an elephant’s face? They were about to kill anyone who thought of it as a metaphor, that Ganesh was a man with an elephant’s memory, gentle strength and loving soul. That Shiva really had 50 hands instead of seeing her as a frighteningly competent multitasker. That sort of thing.</p>

<p>So Siddartha was sent to break the idolatries of Hinduism. Instead of gods, he focused on philosophy as best as he could. Try as he might, it was powerless to prevent his followers from embellishing it in a multitude of variations that make nothing cohesive. I know this because I read that I could leave Buddhism if I found a better religion.</p>

<p>You know what is the bitterest liquor you can taste? That man can never be free from the curse of forming idols in his head, even if it is called “I lack belief in a god or gods”. That very thing then becomes it’s own morality, with an umbilical cord to the rightness and wrongness. All feelings and decisions made on this premise as if it were a less intimidating force of nature, the most powerful horse that he has the heart to break, so that he can shut out the ghostly hauntings of his sweetest dreams and memories that take the soul back to preludes of time and spaces, of kisses and betrayals, blood spilled and flesh eaten while alive. Why else can’t man defeat the urge to slap a vulnerable woman who also needs a powerful idol to break her own curses?</p>

<p>As a Freethinker since childhood and one other thing when I came of age, I have come to terms with Buddhism. It gets you half way there, to your bliss. The other half must be searched from calling out to the darkness of our existence, to see if anything came back to life again from sacrificial condemnation. Some make a choice and some don’t want to. It is our life. Beyond lies the supreme redemption. Go blessed by my failures.</p>
 16489: <p>The world we see is limited to animals and humans. But according to Buddha, world is consists of <a href="https://www.accesstoinsight.org/ptf/dhamma/sagga/loka.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">31 different realms</a>. Those including human world, animal world, God's world etc.</p>

<p>So if you have done karma which cause you to be born in heaven you will also be a god. 
And in buddhism it's clearly explains that the time in the heavens are longer than ours. It's like 1 year of human world is one day for them (I can't remember the exact numbers). And that goes higher when the heaven is also a higher one (something like 100 humans years = one heaven day). So when someone born in that kind of heaven they think that's permanent. Because they are there from the beginning of the world. They don't know that at the end of the world they are also going to die. 
Buddha is the one who understand all these, and how this world works. It's all based on <code>paticcasamuppada</code> explained in the core buddhism. Understanding all these what buddha advised to all is: don't try to go to heaven, because it won't save you for ever, it just save you for sometime only (yes that can be a long time but that's not forever). Once you have finished your business there you have to come back to other worlds as well, and you may even go to hell later. So Buddha found a way to stop all that which is called Nirvana. Important thing on that is it gives you ultimate happiness as well.</p>

<p>I hope this answer clears your confusion on God view of Buddhism.</p>
 -1: <p>I believe Buddhism is non-theistic, especially if we take 'God' in the usual Western sense. It simply doesn't work with the concept of creator God (gods are also trapped in samsara) and rather invites you to experience the nature of ultimate reality for yourself. The Great Beyond is beyond all concepts and thoughts. The moment you try to speak about it, you are already wrong (including me right now, typing these words). Therefore Buddhism doesn't go into describing the Absolute, but instead tries to remove the poison, so that you can see the nature of reality for yourself. It is a very apophatic approach, a very direct method of experiencing the Absolute. I believe the Parable of the Poisoned Arrow is very relevant when it comes to the above mentioned approach. </p>

<p><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_Poisoned_Arrow" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_Poisoned_Arrow</a></p>

<p>Buddhism is man made in the sense that Buddha was a man. But he was no ordinary man ofc, as he achieved Buddhahood, i. e. recognizing his true nature, the buddha-nature, which is inherent in all the living beings. Discovering your true nature, the buddha-nature, is how one can experience the ultimate reality.</p>
 16635: <p>Buddhism is agnostic: it makes no claims about the existence (or non-existence) of any god. The Buddhas (for there were several aside from the eponymous Gautama) were merely those who are sufficiently awake to <strong>see</strong> the human condition, and to prescribe the remedy for what ails us all. Don't make more of it than you need to.</p>

<p>Of course, there are those who see Buddha as a kind of divinity. That is fine to the extent that <em>that</em> is what they need to make sense of the Buddhist path. It makes no difference in the long run, because Buddhists do not seek 'truth.' They seek liberation, and bondage to the 'truth' can be as restrictive as anything else. </p>

<p>If a god exists, then we are one with it, and Buddhist practice is the way to realize that unity. If no god exists, then Buddhist practice is the way to realize who we are. It's not something we need to worry about.</p>
