Hindu Brahma entered Buddhist cosmology as Mahabrahma, the highest of the devas, who mistakenly believes himself the creator of all beings — a belief the Buddha corrects, reframing the creator god as a powerful but impermanent being within samsara.
After his awakening, Gautama Buddha hesitated to teach. Brahma descended from his heaven and pleaded with Gautama Buddha to share the dharma, arguing that some beings 'with only a little dust in their eyes' would understand.
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