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By Amanda Eggert, Michael Murphree, and Joseph Moreno
Fall 2006 AP World History Belief Systems Project
In this power point we explain three different
religions of the world and how they view life after
death and what they believe happens to the body or
soul. Judaism, Buddhism, and Islam are three very
different major religions of the world and each have
different ways of explaining what happens when a
human being dies.
The Jewish religion is very spiritual and is
focus greatly on the relationship with Yahweh
and the people. Since this relationship is the
main part of the religion and its beliefs of the
afterlife is not the substantial part of what they
focus on believing and learning.
Though they do have beliefs of what happens to
the human soul after death. Over the many years
that the religion has been alive they have been
able to look at other beliefs and have considered
many explanations for what happens in the
afterlife.
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http://z.about.com/d/judaism/1/0/W/4/psalm81_sept.gif
Far back when Judaism was developing in Persia the thought of every human
being resurrected after death came up originating from the Persian religion
Zoroastrianism. Along this came the belief that there is a final judgment
where people are rewarded or punished for the ways they live their lives.
They were either sent to Eden (or heaven) or Gehenna (or hell). The souls of
good men would be able “to have power to revive and live again.”
In Judaism Gan Eden (Garden of Eden) is described as a place of joy and peace. This is
the place where the souls are rewarded for the way they had lived their lives. (The
sterotypical way of thinking heaven is like)
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http://progressives.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/garden_of_eden_tomdubois_1.jpg
This was “hell” for the souls that had not
lived their lives to satisfy the judgment they
received. It is described as a place of
extreme evil where Pagan cults conducted
rituals like burning children. It served as a
temporary punishment for the soul and a
place for the soul to stay during its 11 month
purification time. In Jewish societies the
mourning and asking for blessing of the
deceased can only last 11 months so that the
purification would not last longer than
needed or wanted.
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Quran Perspective:
– Death is natural
– It is a change that of the human body physically
– Question- is there anything human that survives the body after death
and disintegration?
– Answer-The “ego,” or humanness of the body will leave the
decomposing body for a fresh start
– Death is not the end, but the beginning of a new sort of life
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The human personality is not subject to physical laws because it is not part
of the body
The body is what keeps the self “tethered” to earthly laws
“And they say, what! When we have become bones and dust shall we
indeed be raised up a new creation. Say thou: Be ye stones or iron or a
substance still...... more improbable in your hearts (to be restored to life).
But they will say: Who........ shall bring us back? Say thou: He who brought
you into being for the first time…” Quran, Chapter 17, verse 49-51
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Will and Action are important in the development of the self, human
personality, and survival
Will
– Will is realizing the action, what should be done, and not necessarily
doing it
• Action• Action is knowing what needs to be done and doing that
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http://www.parvez-video.com/islam/reformation/life_after_death/index.asp
Contrast between Self and Human Personality and Action
– An example of an action is when an entity has deliberately chosen to
be a free spirit and done this
Buddhism
“Never is a man wholly a saint or a
sinner. This only seems so
because we suffer the illusion that
time is something real. And if
time is not real, then the dividing
line that seems to lie between this
world and eternity, between
suffering and bliss, between good
and evil, is also an illusion… The
Potential Buddha already exists in
the sinner; his future is already
there.” ~ “Siddhartha”, by
Hermann Hesse
Buddhism and Samsara
• Buddhists believe time is cyclical.
Which supports the Buddhist belief in
reincarnation.
• Buddhists who continue to be reborn
due to reincarnation into this world
have not been liberated from samsara.
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• Samsara literally means “to flow
together” or to pass through states.
• The purpose of samsara in this world is
for an individual to come upon selfrealization and or self-truth in a
physical body.
Buddhism and
Nirvana
• Freedom from samsara comes when the person
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achieves nirvana.
When translated the word nirvana means,
“blowing out”.
Nirvana is thought as something so different from
the experiences here on earth it is impossible to
describe to someone of this world.
Nirvana unlike the Christian view of heaven is not
a physical location but rather a state of mind.
Nirvana cannot be achieved while someone is
alive.
Nirvana is considered to be the highest happiness
that a person can achieve, and can be achieve when
one becomes free of kilesa (corruptions): lust,
anger cravings etcetera.
Buddhists Focus
• An important thing to note is that Buddhism does
not speak on matters such as the creation of the
world and what life is like after death.
• Buddhists believe that it is more important for an
individual to focus their attention to the problems
in this world instead of wondering about nonworldly concepts.
• “Every thing that exists is good-death as well as
life.”
Buddhism Timeline
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Prince Guatarma Siddhartha was born in a Northern
India region; today know as Nepal around 500 BCE
297 BCE King Asoka convertes to Buddhism and sends
froth missionaries to spread the teachings.
1st century CE, 500 sects of Buddhists.
200 BCE - 200 CE Hinayana Buddhism
2nd century Mahayana Buddhism
320 CE to 600 CE Vajrayana Buddhism
6th century CE, Buddhism enters Japan
7th to 9th century CE, Buddhism enters Tibet.
Sources
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinayana_Buddhism
http://www.wsu.edu:8001/~dee/BUDDHISM/MAHAYANA.HTM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vajray%C4%81na
http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/smc/ml/buddhismtimeline.html
Siddhartha. Hermann Hesse. New Direction Publishing Corporation,
1951.
http://www.faithnet.org.uk/KS4/Matters%20of%20Life%20and%20De
ath/buddhismlifeafterdeath.htm
http://www.religionfacts.com/islam/timeline.htm
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