Buddhist Studies: Glossary of Buddhist Terms - Rebirth
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Description: The definition and history of the concept of rebirth, from a Buddhist perspective.
Buddhism teaches that when a person dies they are reborn and that this process of death and rebirth will continue until is attained. This raises the question : "What is the person?" Most religions believe that the core of the person, the real person, is the soul, a non-material and eternal entity that survives in the afterlife. Buddhism on the other hand says that the person is made up of thoughts, feelings and perceptions interacting with the body in a dynamic and constantly changing way. At death this stream of mental energy is re-established in a new body. Thus Buddhism is able to explain the continuity of the individual without recourse to the belief in an "eternal soul", an idea which contradicts the universal truth of impermanence. Different
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