[Buddha-l] Which Buddhists believe in rebirth?

[Jamie Hubbard]

On 1/28/2012 7:06 AM, Christopher Fynn wrote:
> On 16/01/2012, Jamie Hubbard<jhubbard at smith.edu>  wrote:
>> .... Still, except in some
>> sophisticated thinkers, it is quite clear that in contemporary Japan there
>> is no functional or operational notion of rebirth-- you die, and your
>> spirit hangs out in the spirit world.
> If that is the case,  I guess Japanese Buddhists take "rebirth" as spirits.
It is even better-- they take rebirth as buddhas. The term is "成仏", to 
"become buddha" and the dead are commonly referred to hotoke 仏, or 
"buddha."

Jamie Hubbard