Here's a question from three years ago: Ok, I know that this is really late and maybe deermouse has already found the answer to his/her question. Nevertheless I will still attempt to answer for the benefit of anyone who wishes to ask about God and Buddhism. Let us first consider what we know of Siddharta Gautama. He was a prince who grew up somewhere in India, left his royal life at the age of 29, became an ascetic for several years, gave that up, became enlightened (Buddha, btw, means Enlightened One), and spent the rest of his life walking all over India teaching other people, then died. This is an important part. Not once did he set foot outside of India. What does this tell us about Buddhism's teaching about God/s? Well, for one thing, it tells us that Gautama's concept of God/s was influenced by the pantheistic Hinduism. It also tells us that he never heard of the Yahweh of the Hebrews, which tells us that he never heard of the concept of a "One God". So the Judeo/Christian/Islamic model of a Deity who is the One God who created everything, who is the One and Only God, never made it into traditional Buddhist teachings. Jesus never made it either, because he was born about 500 years after Gautama's death. As for the Hindu deities: well as far as Buddha was concerned, they were in the same boat as us - still caught up in samsara. So what is the basic attitude of Buddhism towards God/s? Quite frankly, that they are irrelevant to Buddhism. P.S. deermouse mentions Prajnaparamita in his/her post. Prajnaparamita is not a god (at least not in Buddhism, idk if there is a hindu deity w/that name). Prajna is wisdom, paramita means perfection or the practice of perfection. The para in paramita means "beyond" as in beyond perfection or perfection beyond perfection. So Prajnaparamita is perfection of wisdom or the perfection beyond perfection of wisdom, or something like that.
