August 23, 2024 at 5:58 am
#51568
Keymaster
“OK then Buddha knew about aliens too.”
- Of course. He taught that the universe has uncountable populated planetary systems like our Solar system (cakkavāla).
- There can be numerous “dasa sahassi loka dhatu” (a large cluster of cakkavāla) in the universe. But they are totally separated from each other. Each “dasa sahassi loka dhatu” can have only one Buddha Sasana at a time. There can be living Buddhas in other “dasa sahassi loka dhatu” right now.
“Did he say that the stars of the night sky represent chakkavalas?”
- That should be obvious. Some suttas compare the light from the Sun to that of the Moon (weak.)