What do Buddhist believe happens in the after life?

Answer 1

• Depending on how much good things you have done in your life you will be reborn after you die

For example:

- If you killed someone, in your next life, YOU will be killed or rebron as something like a spider that people want to squish

- If you always think of others and try to be a kind, caring and a non- selfish, understanding person, then you will be born as a human or someone important

- And if you do the most good things possible, then you will not be born again and that is good because you don't need to suffer the pain...

• The process of death to a Buddhist is part of the ongoing cycle of death and rebirth. Nobody can get out of this cycle until they achieve enlightenment and can enter Nirvana, a self-less condition. Even then, many enlightened beings opt to return to help others find enlightenment. In essence the "not being reborn" condition s the goal.

• The process of reincarnation is the default option. It is not however the Western view of being "you" throughout numerous rebirths like a cheap Hollywood movie. Your essence goes on, your memories don't. While some schools of Buddhism feel there is a cause and effect process in place (a person with an ugly personality in one life is born into a ugly body in this life) this is not supported by other schools.

• Both the reincarnation and the eventual Nirvana are accomplished without the existence of a deity. No judgment (praise, damnation or salvation) exists.

• Many religions believe in life after death, and make it a central reason for their members running their lives in the religion's approved manner. Usually this afterlife is a spiritual sort, in a heaven or hell. Buddhism believes in process of reincarnation where after death the person's life is begun again, allowing a process of improvement with time. The ultimate goal is non-existence as a separate ego.

No religion has an proof of any of these beliefs. Buddhists are free to believe whatever they want.

Buddhists believe in an ongoing cycle of birth and death. The cycle may be ended when enlightenment is attained and Nirvana is attained. This is not necessarily the end, in some schools of Buddhist thought people may opt out of Nirvana to reenter the cycle of birth and death to enlighten others.

Answer 2

The Buddhist people believe in reincarnation.

They believe that the spirit of the human is taken to the heavens by way of a traditional ceremony called a "sky bural". This involves the body of the deceased being wrapped in ceremonial silks and dismembered, which is then fed to the sacred messengers, the vultures.

Depending on how the human lived their life, they will then be reincarnated to live their next life.

A really good book the helped with information about this is "Sky Burial" by Xinran.

Answer:

The central proposition of Buddhism is that existence is a continuing string of death followed by re-birth. The core of individual existence (essentially what the Christians and other faiths refer to as soul) passes along this cycle until enlightenment is achieved and the Buddhist can enter Nirvana a state of selfless existence.

Both the reincarnation and the eventual Nirvana are accomplished without the existence of a deity. No judgment (praise, damnation or salvation) exists.