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The concept of transference of merit According to all the religion, the accumulation of merit is important for the next life because we believe in rebirth. Apart from this human world there are a large number of world such as hell, and heaven, the world of spirit and the world of Brahma. As we believe in rebirth our rebirth will be decided by the actions we done in this world. These actions we called Kamma. That is why we all need to perform good religion actions and gather merit for a good life of the next world. However, the Buddha had said you are the architect of your own fate because it is only the human beings who have the opportunity of acquiring merit. The animals can not do it. It is said that this concept become to appear when the king of Kosala who dreamed a dream that his relations were crying to obtain more merit in order to make their next birth happily. We believe that after the death the soul of the death will be flowed for a certain period without being reborn. So the King reli…………………………………. To offer some more merit because the merit they have acquired is not sufficient to be born in a good life. This is given in the Tiloka Sutta of Kudda sutta in Khuddaka Nikaya. This appears to be an incidence that happens during the lifetime of the Buddha. However, in early Buddhism the concept of transference of merit appears to be not common believe. It is believe that will the appearance of Mahayana Buddhism. The concept given grand or All the religions say that the rebirth is determined conduct and action in the birth. The action can be done that is samsara, the cycle. If you do good action good result we function. The important of the concept in relilion is very important because the believe will lead the people to perform religious rites and rituals. They think that their deer one can be released by way of transference merit, not only for themselves but also for other. Who will perform good religious function which good help the religion to exist and conlunmul.

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The concept of transference of merit

According to all the religion, the accumulation of merit is important for the next life because we believe in rebirth. Apart from this human world there are a large number of world such as hell, and heaven, the world of spirit and the world of Brahma. As we believe in rebirth our rebirth will be decided by the actions we done in this world. These actions we called Kamma. That is why we all need to perform good religion actions and gather merit for a good life of the next world. However, the Buddha had said you are the architect of your own fate because it is only the human beings who have the opportunity of acquiring merit. The animals can not do it. It is said that this concept become to appear when the king of Kosala who dreamed a dream that his relations were crying to obtain more merit in order to make their next birth happily. We believe that after the death the soul of the death will be flowed for a certain period without being reborn. So the King reli…………………………………. To offer some more merit because the merit they have acquired is not sufficient to be born in a good life. This is given in the Tiloka Sutta of Kudda sutta in Khuddaka Nikaya. This appears to be an incidence that happens during the lifetime of the Buddha. However, in early Buddhism the concept of transference of merit appears to be not common believe. It is believe that will the appearance of Mahayana Buddhism. The concept given grand or

All the religions say that the rebirth is determined conduct and action in the birth. The action can be done that is samsara, the cycle. If you do good action good result we function. The important of the concept in relilion is very important because the believe will lead the people to perform religious rites and rituals. They think that their deer one can be released by way of transference merit, not only for themselves but also for other. Who will perform good religious function which good help the religion to exist and conlunmul. As a devotee of any religious especially in Buddhism they perform various types of puja with the intention of acquiring merit to themselves and also transferring to other because not person life can be born in the worldly life. It is difficult to measure the among of merit. Nobody is satisfied with the acquiring of merit. In your life the making merit is done large number of types as you measure among of merit your come to the temple and worship the Buddha, dhamma and sangha. This makes the religions and Buddhist monks action because when the devotees go to the temple the Buddhist monks go to active in performing the religion function. In this manner the devotees should be happy. So through the life the devotee go to the temple because desire merit will never end. The concept of transference of merit appears to be in Mahayana. However, this concept is very important for the continues and maintains of the religion. The concept have created with the intention of making the Buddhist devotees good people and religious which value and benefit and entire society. The intention of religious leaders to build up a concept like this is to make the devotees attached to the religion.