RELG 201 Lecture 3: Assignment #2
10 Feb 2016
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While the list is compiled of 27 differences, the most intriguing to me was the concept of samsara. Samsara is a fundamental concept in buddhism and it is simply the. Perpetual cycles of existence" or endless rounds of rebirth among the six realms of existence, (buddhism major differences). This concept of being reborn is not one that is unfamiliar to my religion, christianity. However, the process and outcome of buddhist rebirth is quite different. In christianity everyone is reborn once when they become a disciple of christ, and they are reborn again when they die and go to either heaven or. Contrary to this, buddhist rebirth can go on for a seemingly infinite timespan. Samsara, or continuous birth and rebirth, can only be finished by achieving nirvana. This also leads into the more eastern way of thinking about time. Because of the buddhist concept of samsara, they see time as cyclical.
