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All content included on our site, such as text, images, digital downloads and other, is the property of its content suppliers and protected by us and international laws. The buddha was not a god and the philosophy of buddhism does not entail any theistic world view. Oct 29, 2015 buddhism without beliefs by stephen batchelor in chm, djvu, epub download ebook. No need for a creating god in buddhism church of the churchless. July 1998 namo tassa bhagavato arahato sammasambuddhassa homage to him, the exalted, the worthy, the fully enlightened one. What buddhist believe buddhanet worldwide buddhist.
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