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You'd often find the term Rebirth in Buddhist literature but most probably not Reincarnation. The latter which is a central tenet in Hinduism, Jainism or Sikhism, is said to have occured when the soul or spirit leaves the body after death and comes back to Earth in a newborn body. Rather than the soul or spirit, rebirth has more to do with the evolving of consciousness. Upon death which is described as the dissolution of the aggregates or skandhas, the consciousness becomes one of the contributing causes for the arising of a new aggregates. The consciousness in the new person is said to be neither identical to nor entirely different from that in the deceased-whatever that means...Anyway, rebirth or reincarnation, strangely, suddenly I feel that both give the idea of deathlessness. It may be a bit different from living eternally in the Kingdom of God, perhaps...
You'd often find the term Rebirth in Buddhist literature but most probably not Reincarnation. The latter which is a central tenet in Hinduism, Jainism or Sikhism, is said to have occured when the soul or spirit leaves the body after death and comes back to Earth in a newborn body. Rather than the soul or spirit, rebirth has more to do with the evolving of consciousness. Upon death which is described as the dissolution of the aggregates or skandhas, the consciousness becomes one of the contributing causes for the arising of a new aggregates. The consciousness in the new person is said to be neither identical to nor entirely different from that in the deceased-whatever that means...Anyway, rebirth or reincarnation, strangely, suddenly I feel that both give the idea of deathlessness. It may be a bit different from living eternally in the Kingdom of God, perhaps...
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