Research Paper On Buddhism Afterlife

Buddhists have a very influential belief of the afterlife which most religions view as blasphemy, and a direct defiance of their religious ideology. Buddhists believe in reincarnation. This is the belief that after death the human soul lives on in a different form, and this form is determined by the choices they make during the previous life. Apart from returning either as a human or animal, hell and many stages of heaven can also be reached depending on the karma received during a lifetime. That is not to say that there is no final resting place, Buddha taught about ‘nirvana’ (not the band). Nirvana is a place of perfect tranquility; it is to the Buddhists what heaven is to Christians. However unlike in Christianity, nirvana is thought as