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After the planes below the Ābhāsvara plane come to an end, a deity from the Ābhāsvara plane dies, and is reborn in the next lower level as a Mahabrahma. More Ābhāsvara deities die and are reborn as Mahabrahma's ministers. The retinue erroneously believes Mahabrahma created them. When one of these ministers die, he is reborn as a human, remembers his previous life and mistakenly teaches a creator deity.
Vasubandhu argued that a creator's singular identity is incompatible with creating the world.[3]
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- ↑ Hayes, Richard P., "Principled Atheism in the Buddhist Scholastic Tradition", Journal of Indian Philosophy, 16:1 (1988:Mar.) pg 11-15.