The Dalai Lama stretches to the limit the idea that everything has a cause, observing that the Buddhist Scriptures
do not assert an independent creator of the universe. Assertions of an independent self or an independent creator contradict the presentation that things arise merely in dependence on their causes (Joy of Living, 166; my boldfacing).
This Buddhist doctrine of dependent arising causes the Dalai Lama to state that Buddhists and Christians “must part company” with respect “to a philosophical or metaphysical dialogue.” He explains,
Within that philosophical worldview it is almost impossible to have any room for an atemporal, eternal, absolute truth. Nor is it possible to accommodate the concept of a divine Creation (Good Heart, 82).
Against this in the Bible God reveals himself as the uncreated Creator, without cause.
Posted August 3, 2008
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