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  2. Afterlife - Wikipedia

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    The Talmud offers several thoughts relating to the afterlife. After death, the soul is brought for judgment. Those who have led pristine lives immediately enter the Olam Haba or world to come. Most do not enter the world to come immediately but experience a period of reflection on their earthly actions and are made aware of what they have done ...

  3. Rebirth (Buddhism) - Wikipedia

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    [4] [3] [16] The various Buddhist traditions throughout history have disagreed on what it is in a person that is reborn, as well as how quickly the rebirth occurs after each death. [4] [15] Some Buddhist traditions assert that vijñana (consciousness), though constantly changing, exists as a continuum or stream (santana) and is what undergoes ...

  4. Saṃsāra (Buddhism) - Wikipedia

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    In Buddhism, saṃsāra is the "suffering-laden, continuous cycle of life, death, and rebirth, without beginning or end". [ 2 ] [ 10 ] In several suttas of the Samyutta Nikaya 's chapter XV in particular it's said "From an inconstruable beginning comes transmigration.

  5. Saṃsāra - Wikipedia

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    Saṃsāra in Buddhism, states Jeff Wilson, is the "suffering-laden cycle of life, death, and rebirth, without beginning or end". [111] Also referred to as the wheel of existence ( Bhavacakra ), it is often mentioned in Buddhist texts with the term punarbhava (rebirth, re-becoming); the liberation from this cycle of existence, Nirvāṇa , is ...

  6. Nine stages of decay - Wikipedia

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    The death of a noble lady and the decay of her body is a series of kusōzu paintings in watercolor, produced in Japan around the 18th century. The subject of the paintings is thought to be Ono no Komachi. [18] There are nine paintings, including a pre-death portrait, and a final painting of a memorial structure: [18] [19]

  7. Bardo - Wikipedia

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    [2] [3] Later Buddhism expanded the bardo concept to six or more states of consciousness covering every stage of life and death. [4] In Tibetan Buddhism, bardo is the central theme of the Bardo Thodol (literally Liberation Through Hearing During the Intermediate State), the Tibetan Book of the Dead, a text intended to both guide the recently ...

  8. Buddhist funeral - Wikipedia

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    Death and dying is an important subject in Tibetan Buddhism as it is a most critical period for deciding which karma will ripen to lead one to the next rebirth, so a proper control of the mind at the death process is considered essential. After prolonged meditation, the meditator continues into the bardo or even towards enlightenment.

  9. Parinirvana - Wikipedia

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    In Buddhism, parinirvana (Sanskrit: parinirvāṇa; Pali: parinibbāna) describes the state entered after death by someone who has attained nirvana during their lifetime. It implies a release from Saṃsāra, karma and rebirth as well as the dissolution of the skandhas.