punarjanma

There is no soul ( atman ) that survives. There is no rebirth ( punarjanma ).

Samsara , the cycle of death and rebirth, also called punarjanma , "birth again," is the arena in which karma plays out across lifetimes.

Hinduism and Buddhism grew from the same soil in ancient India and share a great deal: belief in karma, rebirth, the cycle of samsara, the ideal of non-violence,…

In Hinduism, death is a transition rather than an end: the body dies, but the true self (atman) is deathless and passes into a new life, a process called…

Reincarnation, punarjanma , is the karma-bound rebirth of an ordinary soul, dragged back into a body by its past deeds.

The word is punarjanma , "birth again," and the wheel it turns on is samsara , literally "wandering," the flowing of the embodied self from life to life.