Home›Cosmological Beliefs›Subject›Death, rebirth and destinyBrowse ByDeath, rebirth and destinyThis page groups beliefs by what they are actually about. Wikipedia notes that "to believe something is to take it to be true; for instance, to believe that snow is white is comparable to accepting the truth of the proposition 'snow is white.'" Browsing by subject lets a visitor find every belief built around the same underlying topic.FactsLearn MoreDeath, rebirth and destinySourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsOverviewWhat Defines This GroupingWell-attestedStatements about the structure and history of the world and its beings - creation, world ages, the shape of the cosmos, the fate of the dead - held as articles of a tradition rather than as speculation. The accounts gathered here answer different questions: an origin of the world and a recurring destruction of it are not the same kind of claim. 2StatusStanding as a Comparative CategoryWell-attestedA standard analytic category in the study of religion 2DirectoryCategoryWell-attestedBeliefs & Restrictions 1Learn MoreThe Cosmological Beliefs This group gathers cosmological beliefs, the teachings of the traditions about the structure, origin and destiny of the cosmos: how the world came to be, how it is ordered, and how it will end. Every tradition frames human life within some such account of the whole. The browser will find the cosmological beliefs the atlas gathers. The entries describe each in its own terms, reporting the tradition's own account rather than reconciling the many differing pictures.Death, rebirth and destinyFilter Results13 entriesStatus Within the TraditionAllA minority position within the tradition (1)Binding, without a formal definition (7)Defined and binding within this tradition (1)Rejected, or not held, within this tradition (3)Standard teaching, not formally defined (5)Origin Period Start YearAll-700 (2)1150 (1)1831 (1)Affirmation OfAllBardo (1)Karma (1)Purgatory (1)Samsara (1)Category of BeliefAllCore Tenets (2)Cosmological Beliefs (3)TraditionAllAlawites (1)American Humanist Association (1)Gaudiya Vaishnavism (2)Gelug (2)Humanists International (1)ISKCON (Hare Krishna) (2)Jehovah's Witnesses (2)Jodo Shinshu (1)Jonang (2)Kagyu (2)Karma Kagyu (2)Kashmir Shaivism (2)Khalsa (2)Latter-day Saints (Mormonism) (1)Lingayatism (2)Madhyamaka (1)Mahayana (1)Nath Sampradaya (2)New Atheism (1)Nichiren (1)Nichiren Shoshu (1)Nirmala (2)Nyingma (2)Palo Mayombe (1)Pure Land (1)Rinzai (1)Roman Catholicism (1)Sakya (2)Samkhya (2)Seventh-day Adventism (2)Shaivism (2)Shaktism (2)Shingon (1)Shri Vidya (2)Smartism (2)Soka Gakkai (1)Soto (1)Sri Vaishnavism (2)Tendai (1)Theravada (1)Tiantai (1)Tibetan Buddhism (2)Udasi (2)Vaishnavism (2)Vajrayana (1)Zen (1)ObligationAllObligatory (5)Show ResultsBrowseCompareSelect all 13A person carries a ka, the vital force needing offerings after death, and a ba, the mobile aspect of self that can leave the tomb and move between the dead and the living.Death, rebirth and destinyAncestors continue to watch over and can bless or punish their living descendantsDeath, rebirth and destinyConditional immortality (annihilationism)Death, rebirth and destinyEternal progression and exaltationDeath, rebirth and destinyKarma: action determines future rebirthDeath, rebirth and destinyPurgatoryDeath, rebirth and destinyReincarnation (samsara)Death, rebirth and destinySouls Are Eternally Graded and Not All Are Destined for LiberationDeath, rebirth and destinyThe bardo, the intermediate state between death and rebirthDeath, rebirth and destinyThe imminent Second Coming of ChristDeath, rebirth and destinyThe Soul Passes Through Successive BodiesDeath, rebirth and destinyThis life is the only life there isDeath, rebirth and destinyWyrd and Orlog: The Weave of FateDeath, rebirth and destinySources1. Divinity Atlas Directory Taxonomy, First Edition Category Treetier 12. Encyclopedia of Religiontier 1Mircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.), Macmillan Reference, 2005s.v. CosmologyView the SourceDivinity Atlas Directory Prose, First Edition Category Descriptionstier 1Comments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.