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Message: <blockquote data-quote="hansika2244" data-source="post: 6955748" data-attributes="member: 261605">Rebirth Main article: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebirth_%28Buddhism%29" target="_blank">Rebirth (Buddhism)</a> Rebirth refers to a process whereby beings go through a succession of lifetimes as one of many possible forms of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentience" target="_blank">sentient</a> life, each running from conception<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism#cite_note-22" target="_blank">[23]</a> to death. However, Buddhism rejects concepts of a permanent <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self" target="_blank">self</a> or an unchanging, eternal <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soul" target="_blank">soul</a>, as it is called in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity" target="_blank">Christianity</a> or even <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinduism" target="_blank">Hinduism</a>. As there ultimately is no such thing as a self (the doctrine of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatta" target="_blank">anatta</a>) according to Buddhism, rebirth in subsequent existences must rather be understood as the continuation of a dynamic, ever-changing process of "dependent arising" ("<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prat%C4%ABtyasamutp%C4%81da" target="_blank">pratītyasamutpāda</a>") determined by the laws of cause and effect (karma) rather than that of one being, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmigration_of_the_soul" target="_blank">transmigrating</a> or <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarnation" target="_blank">incarnating</a> from one existence to the next. Each rebirth takes place within one of five realms, according to Theravadins, or <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Realms" target="_blank">six</a> according to other schools.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism#cite_note-23" target="_blank">[24]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism#cite_note-24" target="_blank">[25]</a> These are further subdivided into 31 planes of existence:<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism#cite_note-25" target="_blank">[26]</a> <ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naraka_%28Buddhism%29" target="_blank">Naraka beings</a>: those who live in one of many Narakas (Hells)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animals_in_Buddhism" target="_blank">Animals</a>: sharing some space with humans, but considered another type of life</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preta" target="_blank">Preta</a>: sometimes sharing some space with humans, but invisible to most people; an important variety is the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungry_ghost" target="_blank">hungry ghost</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism#cite_note-26" target="_blank">[27]</a></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_beings_in_Buddhism" target="_blank">Human beings</a>: one of the realms of rebirth in which attaining Nirvana is possible</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asura_%28Buddhism%29" target="_blank">Asuras</a>: variously translated as lowly deities, demons, titans, antigods; not recognized by Theravāda (Mahavihara) tradition as a separate realm.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism#cite_note-27" target="_blank">[28]</a></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deva_%28Buddhism%29" target="_blank">Devas</a> including <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahma_%28Buddhism%29" target="_blank">Brahmas</a>: variously translated as gods, deities, spirits, angels, or left untranslated</li> </ol>Rebirths in some of the higher heavens, known as the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhist_cosmology#.C5.9Auddh.C4.81v.C4.81sa_worlds" target="_blank">Śuddhāvāsa Worlds</a> (Pure Abodes), can be attained only by skilled Buddhist practitioners known as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An%C4%81g%C4%81mi" target="_blank">anāgāmis</a> (non-returners). Rebirths in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhist_cosmology#.C4.80r.C5.ABpyadh.C4.81tu" target="_blank">arupa-dhatu</a> (formless realms) can be attained only by those who can meditate on the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ar%C5%ABpajh%C4%81na" target="_blank">arūpajhānas</a>, the highest object of meditation. According to East Asian and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibetan_Buddhism" target="_blank">Tibetan Buddhism</a>, there is an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bardo" target="_blank">intermediate state</a> (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibetan_language" target="_blank">Tibetan</a> "Bardo") between one life and the next. The orthodox Theravada position rejects this; however there are passages in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samyutta_Nikaya" target="_blank">Samyutta Nikaya</a> of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pali_Canon" target="_blank">Pali Canon</a> (the collection of texts on which the Theravada tradition is based), that seem to lend support to the idea that the Buddha taught of an intermediate stage between one life and the next.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism#cite_note-28" target="_blank">[29]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism#cite_note-29" target="_blank">[30]</a></blockquote>

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