One of the Hindu monk of a well known Hindu institutions was saying that Buddhism is a atheist religion. Which is completly incorrect. According to me, there is no base to proof that Buddhism is atheist religion and don't believe in existence of supreme almighty. Being a Hindu, i can say that Buddhism is a branch of Hinduism tree. According to me, that monk may not known about Buddhism properly. As per one my previous post, Lord Buddha never had boycotted Vedas anyway. He had just told that not to follow Vedas on keeping views on social activities, condition and time. Beside only Vedas, Buddha have accepted all other theories of Hinduism like Gyana, Rebirth, concept of heaven (Swarga) and hell (Narka), results due to activities (Karma fal) and liberation of life. As Buddhism, all God and godess are accepted and worshipped. He never preached to attend and accept the blessing of supreme almighty. According to Buddha, supreme almighty is not the significant and can not understood easily. Only knowledge can be used to get rid of all worldly sorrows and attend moksha. That is also true according to Hindu Scriptures. Gyana Marg is also method to attend liberation. So, he give priority to attend knowledge (Gyana) through deep meditation instead of attending experience of supreme almighty. Through this, it can't be said that Buddhism is aatheist religion. In Tibet, Buddhist regularly chant a mantra "Om Manipadme hum". In this mantra, Om is used in pronounciation of mantra. In Hinduism, Om is the highest name of supreme almighty. Most of God and Godesses like Ganesh, Tara, Kali and Dakini are worshiped in Buddhist with slightly different form. Gyana mark of Hinduism is also known as Sankhya Yog in Shrimad Bhagwad geeta. Which is used not to understand suprem almighty but to under your inner self. Gyan mark sees living souls and supreme soul both are same. Even, some where Living soul is considered as part of supreme soul.
Hence, due to this Buddhism can't be said as atheist religion because Buddhism follows all those theories which accepted in Hinduism. If Buddhism is atheist religion then, theories and principals of Astvakra Geeta shall be considered as Atheist text.
