https://buddhistresources.com/core-teachings/karma-rebirth/Recent content in Karma & Rebirth on Buddhist ResourcesHugoen-usFri, 18 Sep 2026 00:27:35 +0200https://buddhistresources.com/core-teachings/karma-rebirth/understanding-karma/Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:26:31 +0200https://buddhistresources.com/core-teachings/karma-rebirth/understanding-karma/<p><em>Karma</em> has entered English as a word for cosmic payback — what goes around comes around, with the universe keeping score. That is not the Buddhist doctrine, and the gap between the two is wide enough to be worth closing carefully.</p>https://buddhistresources.com/core-teachings/karma-rebirth/rebirth-and-samsara/Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:27:35 +0200https://buddhistresources.com/core-teachings/karma-rebirth/rebirth-and-samsara/<p>Rebirth is the doctrine Western readers most often quietly set aside, and the one that most of the tradition treats as foundational. It is also genuinely difficult — not because it is implausible, though many find it so, but because Buddhism holds it alongside the denial that there is anyone to be reborn.</p>