WHAT IS THE ORIGIN OF LIFE?
SAMYUTTA NIKĀYA (FROM THE BUDDHA AND HIS TEACHINGS BY Venerable Nārada Mahā thera) Rebirth, which Buddhists do not regard as a mere theory but as a fact verifiable by evidence, forms a fundamental tenet of Buddhism, though its goal Nibbana is attainable in this life itself. The Bodhisatta Ideal and the correlative doctrine of freedom to attain utter perfection are based on this doctrine of rebirth. Documents record that this belief in rebirth, viewed as transmigration or reincarnation, was accepted by philo-sophers like Pythagoras and Plato, poets like Shelly, Tennyson and Wordswor...
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