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We first need to distinguish two types of “god”. The first type is God as creator of the universe etc. This kind of God does not exist in Buddhism. The second type is a divine or supernatural being, and of these one could simply say there are two kinds of gods in Buddhism: Not all living beings live on planet earth, or would even be visible to us. One could say that these creatures live in different dimensions from us. See also ‘Heaven and Hell’ below. Some of these creatures experience because of their karma (past actions) almost exclusively happiness, and these are called Devas (Skt.) or gods. However, these gods are still within the cycles of uncontrolled rebirth and can be reborn in the ‘lower realms’ once their positive store of karma is exhausted. If one defines a god as a supernatural being, one could say that a Buddha or an Arya being are “supernatural” in the sense that they are not bound to the same realms of cyclic existence as we are, and they are said to possess supernatur
