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Rebirth and other concepts of the afterlife have been interpreted in different ways by different Buddhist traditions. [ 6 ] [ 10 ] [ 11 ] The rebirth doctrine, sometimes referred to as reincarnation or transmigration , asserts that rebirth takes place in one of the six realms of samsara , the realms of gods, demi-gods, humans, the animal realm ...
The saṃsāra concept, in Buddhism, envisions that these six realms are interconnected, and everyone cycles life after life, and death is just a state for an afterlife, through these realms, because of a combination of ignorance, desires and purposeful karma, or ethical and unethical actions.
The afterlife or life after death is a purported existence in which the essential part of an ... Afterlife in Buddhism consists of intermediated spirit realm ...
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.
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.
The term nirvana is part of an extensive metaphorical structure that was probably established at a very early age in Buddhism. It is "the most common term used by Buddhists to describe a state of freedom from suffering and rebirth," [13] but its etymology may not be conclusive for its meaning. [14]
Alan Cole, Mothers and Sons in Chinese Buddhism (Stanford University Press, 1998) Glassman, Hank. "At the Crossroads of Birth and Death: The Blood-Pool Hell and Postmortem Fetal Extraction." In Death and the Afterlife in Japanese Buddhism. By Jacqueline I. Stone and Mariko N. Walter. Hononlulu.: University of Hawai'i, 2008. 175-206. Print.
Many were destroyed during the cultural revolution in China, some were preserved, such as Huineng, the Sixth Patriarch of Ch'an Buddhism and Kim Kiaokak, a Korean Buddhist monk revered as a manifestation of Ksitigarbha, and some have been discovered recently: one such was the Venerable Tzu Hang in Taiwan; another was the Venerable Yuet Kai in ...