HELLO EVERYONE
QUESTION 01 "Is the sense of 'SELF' created by the existence of the body? "
As followers of Buddhism, we believe that there is nothing called 'self' in this life. What we call as 'self' is just a collection of material phenomena which make up our body and the mental aggregates including the consciousness and the "mental factors" which support the consciousness. We are existing as 'us' only in this life. After the moment of death, we are conceived somewhere else as a human, an animal, a divine being, a hungry ghost or even in hell according to our past Karmas, as a totally different being. So, there is no 'self'.