>>>>As Christianity follows the teachings of Christ, Buddhism follows the teachings of Buddha. In each case, it's following something established by a single person. There is lots of faith in Buddhism. Is there anything that says there isn't a God or Higher Power?
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>>>"On this matter The Buddha maintained a benevolent silence."
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>>Nirvana is a higher plane of existence.
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>The phrasing suggests some other place to exist, which I think is not correct.

Perhaps.

If you bring in the question of existence of non-existence, you have to be prepared for a little existential logic.

The statement "Nirvana is a higher plane of existence" is identical to "The Heavens exist high above the Earth".

They shouldn't be taken as logically true in framework of simple axioms.

They should be taken true with more complicated axioms.

Those, at the very least, are:

1. what is real to you and I is called reality

2. reality takes place in all real physical places which are called "relative space"

3. Absolute space exists externally to relative space

The paradox in these axioms is that "external" refers to a spatial relation, and all real spatial relations are contained in relative space.

A consequence of axiom 2 is that relative space can't make a spatial relation to anything besides more relative space.

So some other axiom for "external" in the sense that axiom 3 uses it must be given to resolve the paradox.

Doing that usually enters you into a form of human expression beneath logos, called mythos.

Examples of a mythos that posits a type of space that isn't a normal kind of space that exists differently than the normal kind of exists are Hinduism, Greek Monism, Taoism, Judaism/Islam/Christianity, Cartesian/Newtonian/Einsteinian philosophy and physics, and of course, Buddhism.


>>The whole plane is by definition a "Higher Power".
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>"Higher power" means what? An external power, like a God for example? Higher power implies a lower power. What/who is the lower power? As soon as you say "higher" you imply "lower" which creates the very dichotomy, dualistic thinking that Buddhism tries to avoid.

Reality is the lower power. The Buddha teaches us it is filled with pain and suffering.