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| | reincarnation - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about reincarnation |
 | | Reincarnation is the belief that an individual soul, or jiva, comes into the world and makes its way from a lowly condition to the very highest, that of liberation (moksha). | | | In the Indian view, the soul is no more dependent on its body than the body is on the clothes it wears or the house it lives in. | | | , reincarnation appears to have had no doctrinal origin, being rather a tenet of philosophical or mystical schools. |
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| | Reincarnation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Reincarnation, literally "to be made flesh again", as a doctrine or mystical belief, holds the notion that some essential part of a human being (or in some interpretations, any living being) can survive death in some form, with its integrity partly or wholly retained, to be reborn in a new body. | | | The Buddha has this to say on reincarnation. | | | Reincarnation is traditionally understood to be akin to the Buddhist concept of Rebirth, but in fact the two concepts are very distinct philosophically - Buddhism teaches reincarnation is not of a permanent self or soul but says the opposite view is also an error (See: neti neti). |
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