Universe

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The universe (lokadhātu) is the whole of space and everything in it. Of all the Template:Wiki conceptions of the universe, the Buddha’s is the most Template:Wiki. According to him the universe has no ultimate beginning or end (S.II,178), but rather forms, dissolves and reforms again over a vast period of time (D.III,84). Within the universe there are countless world systems (lokadhātu) which correspond to Template:Wiki. The Buddha said that within these world systems are ‘thousands of suns, thousands of moons, thousands of continents.’ (A.I,227). He also spoke of the ‘the black, gloomy regions of Template:Wiki between the world systems, where the Template:Wiki of our moon and Template:Wiki, powerful and majestic though they are, cannot reach’ (M.III,124), suggesting that these Template:Wiki are great distances away from each other in space.

Some religions believe that the existence of the universe can only be explained by positing a supreme being who created it, but Buddhism considers this to be mistaken. According to the Buddha, the universe and everything in it came into being due to natural, not supernatural, causes. Template:R www.buddhisma2z.com