Do Buddhist believe in re incarnation?

Answer 1

Not exactly as you might think of rebirth / reincarnation. Buddhist do not believe in a complete never changing soul of a person that gets reborn (transmigration of the soul) into a new body. Instead we believe that our current consciousness is an aggregation (collection) of our past actions and consciousness and other factors. When we die the consciousness that arises in a new person is neither identical nor entirely different from that the previous one but the two form a continuum or stream.

Think of it this way. Imagine all the consciousness of the world is an ocean. The ocean moves around due to different actions and forms waves. Those waves are like people. They arise, stay for a while and then rejoin the ocean, only to arise somewhere else in a slightly different manner. That's how we view rebirth.
Well, it depends. Buddhism is divided into multiple sects, each teaching certain things. But, in the grand majority of it, yes, it does teach reincarnation. According to Buddism, we are reincarnated into different people or beings after death due to a wheel, which we are doomed to go on for eternity. If we are good, we get reincarnated into a good place, but if we are bad, we are reborn into an evil place of suffering. I think if one achieves nirvana, we eliminate this? im not sure...... I do not know what they say about a previous life............ I am not sure where Zen Buddhism stands on, as it is more athiest than the other sects. Reincarnation in Hinduism, Buddhism, and many other Eastern cults mostly has the purpose of saying that one is reincarnated if we do good, and learn from our bad actions in the past in the next life. However, hardly anyone truly knows their past life, ---except of course a few supporters of those religions---so how can we truly know how to correct ourselves in order to align ourselves with braham? How many times must we live life to stop? Isn't it cruel that we have to keep living, over and over, suffering greatly in order to align ourselves with a god that is unknowable? But GOD is knowable. HE is not braham, but instead, YAHWEH, the Almighty Triune GOD. He does not require you to spend eternity repeating life, but instead, after you die, there are two choices: Heaven, or hell. Read The Bible my friend

Answer 2

No. They believe in a cycle of rebirth, within Samsara, rebirth ends when a person becomes enlightened. Until they do, however, their karma continues until it is all spent. The cycle of rebirth will go on and on, but not continually. It will end.

Answer 3

Yes this a fundemental part of Buddhism. It's not so disimilar to ideas of heaven and hell that some religions have. Buddha taught that our 'mind' is eternal' and so will keep reincarnating unless it comes out of samsara.

Answer 4

Yes, sort of. They differ in their view of a soul. When it comes to Buddhism, instead of soul, one might better say "awareness" and "karma" moves along together. Once the awareness stops karma formation, then there will no longer be a rebirth. Until then, you will experience rebirths.

Actually, it's a subtle subject and one should look into the teachings for a really solid answer.

Answer 5

Yes buddhists do believe in re-incarnation, although they believe in rebirth and hell and heaven aswell

Answer 6

Buddhist always believed in reincarnation.

Yes of course they do.It is the foundation.Main aim is to stop the cycle of death and birth

Answer 7

yes but they call it rebirth