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Originally Posted by KSig RC
This post specifically might be best to look at in Val's linked thread - while you can jigger the specific terms however you want, almost every real authority disagrees with you.
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My real authority is uh...my boyfriend's buddhist family. There are many types of buddhism...the buddhism you are most familiar with believes in reincarnation because they believe that one must go through many lifetimes to achieve enlightenment.
Soka Gakkai is Nichoren buddhism-the belief that personal enlightenment is possible for each person in this lifetime. Ergo-you can believe in enlightenment and still think that after death you're off to a much better place.
http://www.sgi-usa.org
Salvation is not enlightenment. FWIW.
And I knew by saying that it was a can of worms.