being

Brahma

Beings

The named Hindu creator of the trimūrti, four-faced in later image. Not Brahman as the impersonal absolute, and not Prajapati as an older creator title alone.

Also known as Brahmā

Buddhist traditions

  • Brahma appears in Buddhist traditions.

    Watson’s Lotus Sūtra seats Brahmā among the gods who attend the Vulture Peak assembly and request the Dharma. Brahmā in that Buddhist narrative cast, not Brahman as impersonal absolute and not a Hindu trimūrti dump alone.

    from Burton Watson (translation) · The Lotus Sutra, 1993 (this translation); Sanskrit/Chinese recensions much older

    appears in · sourced · documented

sources

  • The Lotus Sutra · Burton Watson (translation)

    Burton Watson, The Lotus Sutra.