Also, if you had a hardcore Jodo Buddhist you could make the same argument that many Wahabi extremists clerics make to their suicide bombers, and that their act of protecting their homeland makes them pure and they will go to the Pure Land and never have to be reincarnated, or go to Hell.
Ugh, I wish I would have all this in just one reply. While Jodo, and I don't know enough about Zen in the particulars regarding the afterlife, doesn't focus on reincarnation, it definitely has it. Like Christianity, they see Buddha as a savior that will take you to Heaven so that you will escape Hell, if you're devout enough (say enough chants/Hail Mary's), but they do believe you'll get another chance after you've spent a long time in Hell, just like the other forms of Buddhism.
The ENTIRE idea of Pure Land is to escape the cycle of Death and Re-birth. They see it as a bad thing, not a learning process. They see Buddha as a 'Get out of Jail Free' card, if they follow his twelve step program.
So while they aren't keen on it entirely, they do believe in reincarnation.
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The ENTIRE idea of Pure Land is to escape the cycle of Death and Re-birth. They see it as a bad thing, not a learning process. They see Buddha as a 'Get out of Jail Free' card, if they follow his twelve step program.
So while they aren't keen on it entirely, they do believe in reincarnation.