A comprehensive list of suttas on rebirth ?

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A comprehensive list of suttas on rebirth ?

Postby morning mist » Thu Sep 08, 2011 12:32 pm

Does anyone have a complete list of suttas on rebirth ? If not, then what are some suttas about the effects of an activity ripening in this very life and what are some suttas about the effects of an activity ripening in the next life as well ?
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Re: What are some suttas about rebirth ?

Postby santa100 » Thu Sep 08, 2011 3:28 pm

There'll be a lot. Just go to www.accesstoinsight.org and type in 'rebirth' in the Search box on the upper right hand corner..
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Re: What are some suttas about rebirth ?

Postby cooran » Thu Sep 08, 2011 5:21 pm

Hello mm,

These links on aspects of rebirth can be accessed at the link below:

Rebirth. See also Hell; Jati (birth); Kamma; Sagga (heaven).
The skillfulness of one's actions in life determine one's destination after death: Dhp 17, Dhp 18, Dhp 240
Causes of favorable or unfavorable ~: MN 135, AN 3.65, Dhp 310, Dhp 316
How to gain rebirth as an elephant or a horse: AN 10.177
The laws of kamma and ~ are as inviolable as the law of gravity: SN 42.6
What's so bad about being reborn?: SN 5.6
Why not just settle for rebirth among the devas?: SN 5.7
The preciousness of our human birth: SN 20.2, SN 56.48
~ witnessed by Buddha on the night of his Awakening: See Buddha's Awakening.
"Kamma & Rebirth" (Nyanatiloka)
"Dhamma Without Rebirth?" (Bodhi)
"Does Rebirth Make Sense?" (Bodhi)
"The Thirty-one Planes of Existence" in the Path to Freedom pages
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/index-subject.html#r

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Re: What are some suttas about rebirth ?

Postby tiltbillings » Thu Sep 08, 2011 5:24 pm

Two on reborth and the Buddha's awakening:

http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka ... .than.html

http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka ... .than.html

What is the use of his knowledge
pertaining to the number of insects in the whole world?
Rather, inquire into his knowledge of
that which is to be practised by us

-- Dharmakirti

This being is bound to samsara, kamma is his means for going beyond.
SN I, 38.

Níl sa saol seo ach ceo
There is naught in this life but mist
Is ní bheimid beo ach seal beag gearr.
And we will not be alive but a short hard time.
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Re: A comprehensive list of suttas on rebirth ?

Postby morning mist » Fri Sep 09, 2011 2:30 am

Hi everyone,

Thanks for sharing. I will go back and read or reread them. If you come across some suttas on rebirth that are not listed here yet, feel free to add them or link to them. It would be nice to have a comprehensive compilation of all the suttas on rebirth.
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