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Orthodox Chinese Buddhism

Is Buddhism a religion, the Buddhadharma, or a philosophy

Buddhism has holistic answers to problems that different fields of study are striving to solve― and it transcends their limits.

Buddhism is a non theistic belief in causes and conditions

The environment we’re living in is created by the vows and karma we made in the past lives. We’re born in this environment and receive our respective results due to our karma.

Is Buddhism theistic or non-theistic

Buddhism is non-theistic, which holds that everything in this world is the result of the combination of causes and conditions, not created by an eternal being as the Creator.

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