Buddhist Study

The doctrine of reincarnation is an inevitable part of Indian religious thought, it really is the starting point for any consideration. All religions seek goals that are connected in one way or the other of these teachings.

Hindu reincarnation see religion in a way. When a person dies, leaving the Atman, the essence of that person’s body is dead, and could be born in search of another body in. The Atman, which we call the soul in the West. It is the true identity of the person who is insured from one life to another.

Buddhists reject the idea of ​​the Atman. You have a very different idea. They believe in the doctrine of non-self. What is it? They believe that nothing of a permanent identity. Nothing has a permanent identity that endures from one moment to another. Our personality is always in motion, it changes all the time. In large ways, subtle, it is in constant motion. Atman is no surviving these changes, every minute, we’re a different person.
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