Buddhism does not concern itself with God or Gods.

It takes the view that these are matters that are unknowable and incomprehensible, at least to a normal human being, and it more productive to engage in the practices of Buddhism, such as meditation, than to speculate about the existence or nature of God.

The Buddha himself is considered a normal human being who achieved a state of enlightenment, something that is also available to other humans beings, and is indeed the ultimate goal in Buddhism.

Buddhists pay reverence to the Buddha and other figures, and to a Western-minded person that might look like worship, but it's more in the way that one might revere the image of a saint than of a God.
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I once studied Buddhism with a Buddhist monk, and I've read a lot about it, and explored the practices and philosophy somewhat.


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