Reincarnation

Reincarnation is the belief that a person or living being is reborn in a new body after death. Traditions differ over what continues and how rebirth occurs.

Karma: Karma is the principle that intentional actions shape consequences, including future experiences or rebirth in several religious traditions. Karma often explains why rebirth leads to particular circumstances.
Resurrection: Resurrection is the belief that the dead are restored to life, often through divine action. Unlike reincarnation, resurrection usually concerns restoration of the deceased rather than birth in another body.
Buddhism: Buddhism is a religious and philosophical tradition founded on teachings attributed to the Buddha. Buddhist accounts explain rebirth without affirming a permanent self.
Dalai Lama: The Dalai Lama is the title of the spiritual leaders of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism. The institution recognizes successive Dalai Lamas as rebirths of their predecessors.
Saṃsāra: Saṃsāra is the cycle of birth, death, and rebirth described in several Indian religious traditions. Reincarnation is one account of how beings continue within this wider cycle.
Metempsychosis: Metempsychosis is the passage of a soul from one body to another after death. This classical term names a soul-transfer account closely related to reincarnation.
Hinduism: Hinduism is a diverse family of religious traditions originating in South Asia. Many Hindu traditions connect rebirth with karma, an enduring self, and liberation.
Shanti Devi: Shanti Devi was an Indian woman whose childhood statements about a previous life drew public attention in the 1930s. Her case became one of the best-known Indian claims investigated as evidence of rebirth.
Ātman: Ātman is the enduring self or deepest essence described in Hindu philosophical traditions. Some Hindu accounts identify the reborn subject with an enduring self.
Transmigration of the soul: Transmigration of the soul is the belief that a soul moves from one body to another after death. It makes explicit the enduring soul that some reincarnation doctrines presuppose.

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