Home›Core Tenets›Subject›The cosmos and creationBrowse ByThe cosmos and creationThis page groups beliefs by what they are actually about. Wikipedia notes that "to believe something is to take it to be true; for instance, to believe that snow is white is comparable to accepting the truth of the proposition 'snow is white.'" Browsing by subject lets a visitor find every belief built around the same underlying topic.FactsLearn MoreThe cosmos and creationSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsOverviewWhat Defines This GroupingWell-attestedThe central affirmations of a tradition, stated one at a time. What counts as a core tenet is set by each tradition, and traditions differ over whether assent to stated propositions is what makes a member: creedal Christianity and Islam draw such lists explicitly, while Judaism, Hinduism and most Indigenous traditions do not. 2StatusStanding as a Comparative CategoryWell-attestedUsed, but its validity as a comparative category is disputed 3DirectoryCategoryWell-attestedBeliefs & Restrictions 1ComparisonPrimary Academic DisciplineWell-attestedComparative Religion 4Learn MoreThe core tenets This group gathers the core tenets of the traditions, the central affirmations and defining beliefs that stand at the heart of a religion or worldview, the doctrines a tradition holds as essential to its identity. It is the largest belief grouping in the atlas. The browser will find the core tenets the atlas gathers from across the traditions. The entries describe each belief in its own terms, distinguishing what a tradition affirms of itself from the historical and comparative perspective of scholarship.The cosmos and creationFilter Results13 entriesStatus Within the TraditionAllBinding, without a formal definition (10)Rejected, or not held, within this tradition (2)Standard teaching, not formally defined (3)Origin Period Start YearAll-1500 (1)-400 (1)150 (1)Affirmation OfAllDependent origination (1)Prakriti (1)Purusha (1)Sunyata (1)Category of BeliefAllCosmological Beliefs (7)TraditionAllAmerican Humanist Association (1)Dragon Gate (1)Gelug (3)Humanists International (1)Irani Zoroastrianism (1)Jodo Shinshu (2)Jonang (3)Kagyu (3)Karma Kagyu (3)Kashmir Shaivism (1)Madhyamaka (3)Mahayana (3)New Atheism (1)Nichiren (3)Nichiren Shoshu (2)Nyingma (3)Parsi Zoroastrianism (1)Pure Land (2)Quanzhen (Complete Reality) (1)Rinzai (3)Sakya (3)Samkhya (1)Seicho-no-Ie (1)Sethianism (1)Shangqing (Highest Clarity) (1)Shingon (3)Soka Gakkai (2)Soto (3)Tendai (4)Theravada (2)Tiantai (4)Tibetan Buddhism (3)Vajrayana (3)Zen (3)Zhengyi (Orthodox Unity) (1)ObligationAllObligatory (3)Show ResultsBrowseCompareSelect all 13Dependent origination (pratitya-samutpada)The cosmos and creationEmptiness (sunyata)The cosmos and creationImpermanence (anicca)The cosmos and creationNahui Ollin: The Sun Requires Blood to Keep MovingThe cosmos and creationPurusha and Prakriti: Consciousness and Nature Are Two Irreducible PrinciplesThe cosmos and creationThe cosmic struggle of good and evilThe cosmos and creationThe Creator of This World Is a Lesser Power Beneath the True GodThe cosmos and creationThe Phenomenal World of Illness and Suffering Is Not Ultimately RealThe cosmos and creationThe universe is natural, with nothing beyond itThe cosmos and creationThe World Is the Free Self-Expression of a Single Consciousness, Not an IllusionThe cosmos and creationThe World's Plurality Is an Appearance Superimposed by IgnoranceThe cosmos and creationThree thousand realms in a single moment of thought (ichinen sanzen)The cosmos and creationYin and yangThe cosmos and creationSources1. Divinity Atlas Directory Taxonomy, First Edition Category Treetier 12. Encyclopedia of Religiontier 1Mircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.), Macmillan Reference, 2005View the Source3. Belief, Language, and Experiencetier 1Rodney Needham, Basil Blackwell, 19724. Wikipedia: Comparative religiontier 2WikipediaComparative religion, opening definitionQuote, Comparative religion, opening definitionComparative religion is the branch of religious studies that systematically compares the doctrines, practices, themes and impacts (including migration) of the worlds religions.View the SourceDivinity Atlas Directory Prose, First Edition Category Descriptionstier 1Comments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.