Buddihist Beliefes

There are three important meanings that people need to know to understand the buddhism: Karma, Samsara and Nirvana.

-Karma: In simple words, Karma is the law of cause and effect. Buddhist people think that each person should have a process of birth and renaissance until this person get the Nirvana, when someone get the Nirvana break the cycle of reincarnation.
The definition of Karma is: "You are what you are and what you do, as a result of what you did and what you were in a previous reincarnation, which is the inevitable result of what you did and what you were in previous incarnations too". The buddhists believe that the person that someone will be in the next life depend of the actions of this person in the present life, but people can break this cycle.

-Samsara: This is one of the most difficult concepts of Buddhism. Samsara explain that everyone are in a cycle of birth and renaissance. People doesn't have an individual soul. If someone believes in an individual soul, it is an illusion. A person is not one soul but it is a mix of sensations, moments, feelings, and karma of the previous life. A human personality is the main cause of the human personality that is going to appear in the next life. When you renaissance you are not the same person but obviously you will be similar of the person that you were before you die.

-Nirvana: Nirvana means the extinction of the existence. Nirvana is not a place, like heaven, it is a status. Buda didn't explain exactly what kind of status is. He just explain that Nirvana is a peaceful state of mind. It is the status where Karma and the cycling of renaissance stop. It is the end of suffer, a status where the person doesn't have any desire and the individual conscience finish too.
Gautama gave to his disciples this concept of Nirvana: There is a condition in which the land, the water, the air, the light, the space without limits, the time without limits, being human , the ideas or lack of ideas, this world or the other one don't exist. There is not a rising, no death, no cause or effect, no change, no stopping.
Any buddhist can't understand what is exactly the condition of Nirvana, but this is their eternal hope.

Buddhists don't believe in a creator but the believe and a lot of gods. They are polytheists.
They don't have sacred books either, they have a compilation of Gautama's teachings. The name of those books is: Tripitaka.

Main Gods
-Daiitoku Myo-o: It is a protector god, it has six faces, six arms and six legs. It is the god of victory, he has arms and have the power to destroy the evil and create the good.
-Fudo Myo-o: It is the main god of wisdom. He has a sword and a string to hitch the demons.
-Gozanze Myo-o: It is a protector god with three faces and eight arms.
-Kongo Yasha Myo-o: It is a protector god with three faces and six arms. This god represents the strong.
-Gundari Myo-o: It is a protector god with three faces and eight arms too. It has snakes in his neck and legs.

Tripitaka
-Vinaya Pitaka: It has the rules of discipline of the monks.
-Sutta Pitaka: It has the sermons of Buddha and the way to get the Nirvana.
-Abhiddbamma Pitaka: It has philosophic comments about buddhism.

Gautama rejected the idea of a creator. He thought that the questions about the origin of the universe doesn't have relevance.

One of the teachings of buddhism is the law of disregard.  In this religion, disregard doesn't mean lack of interest. It means to be free of fair to loss something or someone. It doesn't mean stop loving or enjoying, but start living with more peace because we will not be afraid of loss. That is the reason why Buddhists don't believe in an omnipotent god, because they believe that humans don't need to depend of anyone, even god.