Rebirth (Buddhism)

Rebirth ( Pali: Punabbhava; Sanskrit: punarbhava; well: Again existence or be renewed again or existence) is in the Buddhist context a term used in Indian philosophy, which was already known before the advent of Gautama Buddha. Buddha took the concept and adapted it to his own findings.

Rebirth and non-self

Postulated within the various Indian philosophy oriented to the Vedas philosophical currents (see Astika and Nastika ) the existence of Atman (Sanskrit ) or Atta ( pali ), which was often translated as soul. Buddha, however, denied the existence of Atman and spoke of anatman (Sanskrit ) or Anatta ( Pali ), the non-self.

In Buddhism, therefore is under rebirth not going further a soul understood as in some other religious traditions to reincarnation, but a new creation of the process of existence. Do this, in the Milindapanha:

" But why, O Lord, there can be rebirth without transmigration of souls? Explain this to me. If, for example, O king, a man lights a lamp at another lamp, the light would probably because of the hike over a lamp to other lamp? " Not so, O Lord. Likewise, O king, you are reborn without doing wanders over anything. "

In the Anguttara Nikaya explains about the influence of karma rebirth:

" Owners and heirs of her work, O monks, nature, their work sprung, linked to it are, have their work to the refuge, and the good and evil deeds they accomplish, they will have to inherit. "

The Visuddhimagga is different in the chapter through the karma formations conditioned is consciousness 19 types of ' karma knitted consciousness ' (see vijnanas ).

One of the oldest types of images of Buddhist painting is one of the wheel of life ( Sanskrit: Bhavachakra ), a representation of the ' sorry liable rebirth cycle ' samsara.