Humans go through an unknown number of cycles of rebirth over many lifetimes. Skilful actions lead to a good rebirth and unskilful actions lead to a bad rebirth. Through doing skilful actions in ...

Translations of recitations in Pali are in italics. Langer, Rita. Buddhist Rituals of Death and Rebirth: Contemporary Sri Lankan practice and its origins (London: Routledge, 2007). It is now planned ...

This passage underlines the purpose of the Five Precepts in avoiding samsara and rebirth: To avoid all evil, to cultivate good, and to cleanse one’s mind - this is the teaching of the Buddhas.

early Buddhism; Theravāda; Hindu rites (for comparison); cosmology; giving of merit; giving; Karma; rebirth; etc. Most articles by Schopen are relevant to the topic, but not all are listed ...

and it is this concept of rebirth that is unique to India. Indian thought's primary idea, shaped in the religions of Buddhism, Jainism and Hinduism, is rebirth. Stories of rebirth began ...