WORLD RELIGIONS

Detailed explanation-1: -Buddhists recognise that there is a continuous cycle of life, death and rebirth. This cycle is known as samsara. The ultimate aim of Buddhist practice is to become free from samsara.

Detailed explanation-2: -Nirvana (Sanskrit: , nirvāṇa; Pali: nibbāna) is “blowing out” or “quenching” of the activities of the worldly mind and its related suffering. Nirvana is the goal of the Buddhist path, and marks the soteriological release from worldly suffering and rebirths in saṃsāra.

Detailed explanation-3: -What is Nirvana in Buddhism? From the Sanskrit for “being extinguished, ‘’ it is commonly associated with the Buddhist final path. It means the cessation of suffering, and, therefore, of the end of cycles of reincarnations.

Detailed explanation-4: -Buddhists believe that human life is a cycle of suffering and rebirth, but that if one achieves a state of enlightenment (nirvana), it is possible to escape this cycle forever. Siddhartha Gautama was the first person to reach this state of enlightenment and was, and is still today, known as the Buddha.

Detailed explanation-5: -Reincarnation is a mainstream teaching in Hinduism, Sikhism, Buddhism and Jainism.