From the radical materialists' viewpoint, Buddhism is an ideology that accepts the existence of mind, and is thus a faith-oriented system like other religions. However, since Buddhism does not accept the concept of a Creator God but emphasizes instead self-reliance and the individual's own power and potential, other religions regard Buddhism as a kind of atheism.
p. 13
Bstan-'dsin-rgya-mtsho, Dalai Lama XIV "The Buddhist Concept of Mind"
MindScience: An East-West Dialog
Wisdom Books, 1994
Symposium held by the Harvard Medical School and Tibet House.

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