reincarnation....
hmmmm.....
after one of us passes on... our spirits go into hell (confirmed
for all ppl who believe in chinese religions....) and suffer for
whatever wrong we have committed in the whole lifetime....
after that... (according to buddism) we wander to a void, and that
void also has many "levels" of which, the highest is NIRVANA (state
of enlightenment) so we juz wander ard until we can finally
understand what there is to learn in the past life (but we won't
know, because we are dead, and then....
back to normal traditional beliefs..... we have to drink the "meng
po tang" b4 reincarnating.... (hence the loss of memory) and
depending on the karma of the previous life, we reincarnate into
whatever "merits" we have "earned" in the previous life...
ranges from insects to mammals, etc....
and the cycle repeats until finally, we can break free of the
"bonds of earth" (sumthing like that...) and attain NIRVANA, the
cycle will end, and no more reincarnation continues....
one thing is... "for every living thing killed at place A, a new
one is born the next moment at place B"
eg.... a tree is cut, but a life is born at the same time so the
tree "reincarnated in another place"
however, this is juz a rough theory.........