All religions claim to have the absolute truth in their teachings and spiritual practices even though they differ widely in their belief systems: Theravada Buddhists place importance on Sakyamuni Buddha alone, and consider other Buddhas and Bodhisattvas such as Amitabha and Kwan Yin of the Mahayana pantheon to be inferior or even evil gods, because they were not mentioned in the Theravadian sutras at all;