What do buddists call heaven?

Answer 1

Nirvana, a place free of the 3 poisons (greed, ignorance, an anger) although it's should not be consider as a heaven because it's not nevissarily enjoyable and god like. Some say it's the main goal of all Buddhists, some think it's a myth.

Answer 2

Buddhists do not believe in an after-life (heaven) as described in Abrahamic faiths (Judaism Christianity and Islam), in which a select few, who have been deemed worthy, will spend eternity adoring an all powerful deity. Buddhist believe in the concept of rebirth, but we do not believe in a complete never changing soul of a person that gets reborn (transmigration) into a new body. Instead we believe that our current consciousness is an aggregation of our past actions and consciousness and other factors. When we die the consciousness that arises in a new person is neither identical nor entirely different from that the previous one but the two form a continuum or stream.

Think of it this way. Imagine all the consciousness of the world is an ocean. The ocean moves around due to different actions and forms waves. Those waves are like people. They arise, stay for a while and then rejoin the ocean, only to arise somewhere else in a slightly different manner. That's how we view rebirth.

But the ultimate goal of the religious life for Buddhist and Hindus, who we share this belief, is to escape the cycle of death and rebirth. Buddha asserted that what keeps us bound to the death/rebirth process is desire, desire in the sense of wanting or craving anything in the world. Hence, the goal of getting off the Ferris wheel of reincarnation necessarily involves freeing oneself from desire. Nirvana is the Buddhist term for liberation. Nirvana literally means extinction, and it refers to the extinction of all craving, an extinction that allows one to become liberated, happier and at peace.

So I would ask you two questions:

(1) Knowing that even though there are only a few precious moments of true happiness on Earth in one's lifetime, but the majority of the time we are unsatisfied (unless we have become enlightened), would not an escape from the cycle of rebirth not be something to crave?

(2) To what end would an eternity worshiping and adoring a deity bring? Would there be no chance for change? No chance of growth and betterment? No chance to help others?

Answer 3

There is no Buddhist equivalent to the Abrahamic faith's heaven. Buddhists do not believe in any infinite lived gods nor in any eternal afterlife with a separate soul. What Buddhists believe about afterlife can be summarized as follows:

1. Everyone will at some point realize their goodness and constructiveness to

all things and this will cause them to work to reach enlightenment.

2. Everyone has many multiple lifetimes to realize this and reach enlightenment.

3. When one reaches enlightenment and then passes on they have an option

to either enter nirvana, which can be explained as not a place but as

complete unity with the universe or to be reborn again because they want to

help other realize thier goal of enlightenment.

Answer 4

There s no equivalent to the Abrahamc faith's heaven in Buddhism. Heaven to those faiths is a place of continued aware existence where one is in the company of "god" and good people after one pass through life. Bad people are sent to hell. Christians and others often confuse the concept of Nirvana with their own concept of heaven.

Buddhists have this instead:

• all people are good and eventually reach enlightenment
• everyone has multiple lifetimes to reach enlightenment
• there is no god
• a person retains no individual existence in Nirvana which is not place but a unity with the cosmos
• entry into Nirvana is voluntary, you don't have to go there is you don't want to (you have better things to do)

Answer 5

I think i am right,

Buddhists go to there heaven which is called Nirvana by following the eightfold path.

Answer 6

Nirvana which is a release from reincarnation and is there ultimate goal

Answer 7

Nirvana- total nothingness