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The lord Buddha has tough dhamma to the aliens. in presently also the buddhist monk going to start a dhamma discussion the firt few words taht they telling are request to come other planet lives also to listn dhamma as "Samantha chakka walesu". that mean other planet lives...
the aliens also students of lord buddha..
its true..

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Dear Nishan Rangana,

Thank you for the opportunity to answer your question.

The Buddha never directly addressed "aliens." However, he did state that we are the only world that has creatures with Form AND Souls. All the other worlds only have Souls, but do not have forms.

The phrase, "Samantha Chakka Walesu" refers to the other worlds:

the hell world
the heaven world
the animal world
the human world
the deva world
the hungry ghost world

not to an "alien" world. But if alien to you means world that is different from ours, then yes, we "could" call the spirit world aliens, we could call those in hell "aliens." and we could call those in heaven "aliens."

The Buddha also taught that we should not try to prove or disprove the existence of aliens, the truth of karma, the powers of a Buddha or even the origins of world. He said these things are only known to Buddha and cannot be proved by mankind. Therefore, we should not waste our time discussing or arguing things that we can not conclusively prove.

I hope I have answered your question.

Sincerely,

Phra Anandapanyo

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