Can You Be Reincarnated?
After Death, Reincarnation into a New Body Is Asserted to Be Instantaneous in Early Jaina Texts. Depending Upon the Accumulated Karma, Rebirth Occurs into a...
After death, reincarnation into a new body is asserted to be instantaneous in early Jaina texts. Depending upon the accumulated karma, rebirth occurs into a higher or lower bodily form, either in heaven or hell or earthly realm. No bodily form is permanent: everyone dies and reincarnates further.
Can you be reborn as an animal?
Eventually the cycle begins again and one is reborn into another place, and this continues until Nirvana. Buddhism also sees animals as sentient beings like humans, and says that humans can be reborn as animals and animals can be reborn as humans.
What percentage of people are reincarnated?
According to Wikipedia, the percentage of people who believe in reincarnation ranges from 12% to 44% depending on the country being surveyed (in the U.S., it's 20%).
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