Home›Cosmological Beliefs›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-attestedStatements about the structure and history of the world and its beings - creation, world ages, the shape of the cosmos, the fate of the dead - held as articles of a tradition rather than as speculation. The accounts gathered here answer different questions: an origin of the world and a recurring destruction of it are not the same kind of claim. 2StatusStanding as a Comparative CategoryWell-attestedA standard analytic category in the study of religion 2DirectoryCategoryWell-attestedBeliefs & Restrictions 1Learn MoreThe Cosmological Beliefs This group gathers cosmological beliefs, the teachings of the traditions about the structure, origin and destiny of the cosmos: how the world came to be, how it is ordered, and how it will end. Every tradition frames human life within some such account of the whole. The browser will find the cosmological beliefs the atlas gathers. The entries describe each in its own terms, reporting the tradition's own account rather than reconciling the many differing pictures.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, 2005s.v. CosmologyView 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.