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What does Reincarnation mean?
A
a fortress built to protect a city
B
a belief found in Hinduism and other Indian traditions that a person has a duty or obligation to live an honorable life
C
a Sanskrit word meaning “awakened”; the name given to the man who founded Budhhism
D
the belief that a person’s soul is reborn into a new body after death
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Reincarnation, also known as rebirth, transmigration, or metempsychosis (Greek) is the philosophical or religious concept that the non-physical essence of a living being begins a new life in a different physical form or body after biological death.

Detailed explanation-2: -Reincarnation is the religious or philosophical belief that the soul or spirit, after biological death, begins a new life in a new body that may be human, animal or spiritual depending on the moral quality of the previous life’s actions.

Detailed explanation-3: -In Hinduism, all life goes through birth, life, death, and rebirth and this is known as the cycle of samsara . According to this belief, all living things have an atman, which is a piece of Brahman, or a spirit or soul. It is the atman that moves on into a new body after death.

Detailed explanation-4: -The doctrine of reincarnation teaches that each human being has been born and died, and again been born and died, over and over again in a beginningless process that will never end unless they become enlightened.

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