| Buddhists believe that heaven and hell are not | | | | Buddhism afterlife can be described as rebirth |
| permanent concepts. They feel that it is not | | | | happening in any number of ways. Which way you |
| reasonable to condemn someone to eternal damnation | | | | enter Buddhism afterlife is shaped by the last thought |
| due to the weakness of the human spirit. Buddhists | | | | that thought-time at the exact moment of death. If the |
| can work there way up from hell by using the merit | | | | person's last thought was of something worth |
| that they have acquired in previous lives to make hell a | | | | congratulations or otherwise merit worthy event then |
| temporary resting place. | | | | he will find a happy state in his future. This is a |
| According to Buddhist teachings the hell of our world is | | | | temporary existence as the person should always be |
| much hotter than the hell in any spirit world. Human | | | | striving for perfection and the Noble path to reach the |
| beings are stricken with eleven kinds of pain and | | | | Truth and finally Enlightenment. |
| agony due to our base and immoral nature. (Greed, | | | | Heaven in Buddhism is merely a place where those |
| worry, pain (physical and mental), lust, hatred, decay, | | | | who have built up a stock of good deeds will |
| sickness, lamentation, melancholy and grief to name | | | | experience the good times for a longer period of time |
| some of them.) Buddhists define hell as any place that | | | | and hell is merely a place where those who are evil |
| has suffering (famine, disaster, poverty, etc.) is a hell | | | | suffer more mental and physical anguish as a result of |
| for those involved in the suffering. Wherever there is | | | | their deeds while on this planet. Buddhism is not about |
| prosperity, joy and love then that is a heaven for those | | | | hell fire and damnation. It is about mental discipline and |
| that are having those good experiences. | | | | building your character. |