Extraterrestrials and Buddhists

This post talks about what a problem discovering the existence of exterrestrial lifeforms will have for Christianity. Islam and Hinduism are mentioned as having less of a potential problem.

But one religion that just isn't mentioned is Buddhism. Buddhism positively includes extraterrestrials. Think of the sutras Graham Harman and I have been talking about on our blogs recently.

Or for an even more concretely, consider the Dzogchen tantras. According to this tradition, on Earth we have 17 of the 6 400 000 in existence throughout the Universe. Get the picture?

I simply fail to see the Christian–atheist argument that passing through the Christian drama (as Žižek puts it) is in any sense as helpful as this in thinking the absence of a beyond.