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Sacred Texts: Buddhism

Chapter IX. Veiws on Metempsychosis

19th Century BuddhologyBuddhist IconographyTibetan Buddhism

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Chapter VIII. The Sacred Literature Shares 3 topics Chapter XVI. The Systems of Reckoning Time Shares 3 topics Chapter III. The Religious System of Sakyamuni Shares 3 topics Chapter VII. Historical Account of the Introduction of Buddhism into Tibet Shares 3 topics
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RE-BIRTHS.--MEANS OF DELIVERANCE FROM RE-BIRTH.--SUKHAVATÎ, THE ABODE OF THE BLESSED. WHEN treating the developement of Buddhism, I had repeated occasion to allude to metempsychosis, or the migration of the souls of animated beings, as one of the established laws of Buddhism, according to which man's soul migrates as long as the causes of re-birth have not been taken away from it. The forms under which any living being may be re-born, are sixfold:-- 1.

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