reincarnation beliefs
Soul recycling faiths
Reincarnation beliefs are religious or spiritual convictions that the soul or consciousness survives death and is reborn in a new body.
Central to Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism, these beliefs also appear in various New Age spiritualities and some ancient Western traditions.
Details vary—whether rebirth follows karma, whether it's cyclical or progressive, whether one can be reborn as an animal: Her reincarnation beliefs led her to view death as a transition rather than an ending.
- samsaraCycle of rebirth
- wheel of lifeBuddhist rebirth cycle diagram
- karmaSpiritual cause and effect
- karmic debtOwed for past actions
- old soulPerson inexplicably mature
soul journey · spiritual evolution · palingenesis · eschatology · transmigration · past lives · past life regression · rebirth · born again · anamnesis · dualism · bardo · spirit world · ancestor veneration · memory recall · collective memory · bodily form · metaphysics
reincarnation beliefseternal damnation
Everlasting punishment after death
physicalism · oblivion · final judgment · paradise · eternal rest