True, some Buddhists purport to believe
in a god, or in a realm of higher beings called devas. Others pray to
statues of Buddha (Siddhartha Gautama). But as a whole, Buddhism is
not a theistic religion. It has a law—the law of karma—but no
lawgiver.
According to the Buddhist worldview,
all beings accumulate karma based on their actions, and karma
dictates their life circumstances. When a person dies, the karma
accumulated in that lifetime (and all previous lives) determines his
or her lot in the next life.
To many Buddhists, this means that a
person born into a wealthy family has good karma, while someone who
lives in a poor, disease-infested village would have accumulated
negative karma.
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