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Buddhist understanding of the concept of reincarnation

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Buddhism's explanation of karma and reincarnation without a soul. It shows how the effects of karma still continue regardless of whether or not there is a concept of the soul as understood in Hinduism. The idea of 'anatta' or 'non-soul' is the key to an understanding of how this works.

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This solution seeks to explain how it is possible in the Buddhist philosophy for transmigration to occur when there is also rejection of the notion of a permanent soul. It explains how transmigration can take place using the analogy of the candle and the flame which passes from one candle to another.

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The Buddhists have the doctrine of anatta, which can be translated as non-soul. People assume from that that Buddhism does not believe in the idea of the soul (in Hinduism, atman). This is a mistaken assumption. What Buddhism means by anatta is that the soul force is an impermanent as every other aspect ...

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