UFOs in Buddhism
Adapted from Daniel O'Connor's book "Only Man Bears his Image"
Buddhism talks about so many different realms, universes and a vast ocean of different countless beings with their own mind stream. From humans to intermediate state beings to deities and titans and stuff. The aliens fit perfectly in the Buddhist cosmology and would be nothing which may impact buddhism in any way. Source
As Dr. David Weintraub noted:
Buddhists view the universe as unimaginably large, ancient, and filled with living beings everywhere. Within this universe, reincarnation allows a soul to endlessly transmigrate upward or downward through the multiple levels of living beings. At the moment of death, reincarnation also permits a soul to slip away from a body in one part of the universe and be reborn into a different body in another part of the universe. The very existence of ET is built into the Buddhist worldview...[288]
Further detailing Buddhist belief in relation to extraterrestrials, the same scholar relayed:
... the Anguttara Nikaya (Numerical Discourses of the Buddha) ... describes the ‘thousand-fold world’ system. According to this text, the universe is full of inhabited worlds: “...there are thousands of suns, thousands of moons, thousands of inhabited worlds of varying sorts.” ... Even the observable universe accessible to modern astronomers ... would be a drop of water in the ocean that is the Buddhist’s vision of the thrice-a-thousand Great Cosmos... Like the living beings in the Buddhist universe, all the suns, moons and inhabited worlds in a thousand-fold world universe are believed to undergo a cycle of creation and destruction (reincarnation on a cosmic scale) ... ”The inhabitants of such worlds may well be, in different degrees, more powerful than human beings, happier and longer-lived. ... They are inhabitants of this universe, fellow-wanderers in this round of existence...” Mahayana [Buddhist] scriptures ...[assert] a variety of much vaster cosmologies, many of them centered on the metaphor of a lotus flower. In one, the universe is conceived of as a thousand-petaled lotus flower with ten billion world systems on every petal, for a total of ten trillion worlds...[289]
Presenting any comprehensive overview of extraterrestrials in Buddhism would quickly turn this book into a library. Suffice it to say that Buddhism is not merely open to aliens, nor does it merely teach that they exist; it is itself a veritable systematic ET deception. Therefore, this—the most philosophically and theologically anti-Christian of all major World Religions—is also by far the most pro-extraterrestrial.
Buddhism is particularly amenable to the views of those Christians who believe in the possibility of multiple incarnations of God (thus robbing Jesus Christ of His status as the only begotten Son of God). Replace “Vairocana” with “Cosmic Christ” in what follows, and you have exactly what Catholic ET promoters like Fr. Teilhard de Chardin propose:
...all the worlds are conceived of as creations of Vairocana (“Illuminating All Places”), the transcendent personification of universal buddha-nature (dharmakaya). That is, this Vairocana represents the cosmic possibility of Buddhahood ... The omnipresent Vairocana incarnates into countless buddhas and bodhisattvas, one for every world ... [so] all of the life forms in the universe have access to nirvana by way of their own particular manifestations of Vairocana.[290]
On the other hand, for each passing year SETI’s “Great Silence” continues (which, as we saw in Part Three, has itself already largely disproved aliens), Buddhism’s view of the cosmos is threatened. Dr. Weintraub also noted:
The possibility that decades of thorough scanning of hundreds of millions of exoplanets might fail to uncover any evidence of extraterrestrial life ...could be difficult [some Buddhists] to handle... If scientific findings that reveal no signs of extraterrestrial life were taken as an absolute indication that no form of life currently exists anywhere else in the universe, Buddhists would either have to significantly amend the features of their biocentric cosmology or dispense with that cosmology entirely as a model of objective reality...[291]
It is unsurprising that ET-contact expectation in the West has increased in proportion to the infiltration of Buddhist philosophies (and Hinduism-derived Yoga practices and teachings) into contemporary Christianity.
Only Christianity can defend us against this UFO deception.