Do Buddhists believe in reincarnation after death?

Answer 1

No. Buddhists believe in rebirth. Reincarnation is the passage of the soul from one for to another, there is no soul in Buddhism; rebirth is the result of karmic seeds sown in life.

They believe that there is a circle of birth and if you earn enlightenment the you are taken out of the circle of birth

Answer 2

The answer is No! Buddhism is about living in and enjoying the present to the fullest extent possible without doing harm to others. ANSWER: They believe that when you die, you will be re-incarnated into one of the following realms: * Gods * Humans * Titans * Hungry Ghosts * Animals * Hell Some beliefs omit the Titan realm.

Answer 3

Many Buddhists believe in reincarnation, or, more specifically, that the mindstream continues after the physical body dies. As long as a person remains deluded about the true nature of reality s/he will continue to be reborn into Samsara for lifetime after lifetime. When the true nature of reality is understood - Nirvana - a person can choose to continue being reborn, in order to help others understand as well. These people are called Bodhisattvas.

Answer 4

Buddhists come in many varieties. Some Buddhists believe that if an individual has not been liberated in this life, unused karma creates another related life after death. Other Buddhists don't believe this. Yet other Buddhists neither believe nor disbelieve in an afterlife, as they base their convictions on what they know and experience for themselves.

There is currently an ongoing debate among Buddhists regarding whether or not the Buddha taught that a belief in rebirth was necessary or not.

Answer 5

Yes,the Buddhist do belief in the rebirth.

Answer:

Life after death in the Christian and other Abrahamic religions' sense is that you die and go to heaven or hell. In Buddhism life and death are a cycle which you may pass though countless times on your path to enlightenment. The final state (Nirvana) is a selfless condition where you give up your individual existence. This is not like the Abrahamic traditions life after death where you are still yourself.

Answer 6

Not exactly as you might think of rebirth. Buddhist do not believe in a complete never changing soul of a person that gets reborn (transmigration) into a new body. Instead we believe that our current consciousness is an aggregation of our past actions and consciousness and other factors. When we die the consciousness that arises in a new person is neither identical nor entirely different from that the previous one but the two form a continuum or stream.

Think of it this way. Imagine all the consciousness of the world is an ocean. The ocean moves around due to different actions and forms waves. Those waves are like people. They arise, stay for a while and then rejoin the ocean, only to arise somewhere else in a slightly different manner. That's how we view rebirth.

Answer 7

There is a significantnt difference between Buddhist beings and thou of the Abrahamic faiths (Christianity, Judaism and Islam) As an example, the Christian afterlife is seen as a place where each person retains individuality and an interaction with the deity and other "souls". There is no eating drinking or sex (probably not a lot of fun either).In Buddhism the state of Nirvana is a loss of individual existence. The existence of an individual existence is seen as the final conceit. There is no "I " involved in your existence in Nirvana. Prior to enlightenment the being is reborn to a continuing cycle ro experience where the skill of learning to lead a life devoid of desire are learned. Even after enlightenment there is no need to go to Nirvana. Mahayana Buddhism allows the enlightened to voluntarily return to the cycle of life and death and rebirth to help others attain enlightenment.

Answer 8

In a sense yes, Buddhists generally take reincarnation as a fundamental truth.