It is quite different. Christianity maintains that an original sin was created by Adam and Eve who betrayed the orders of God. Christ then appeared and atoned for the sin. God will save people who believe in Him, but will pass judgement on non-believers. ?In contrast. Buddhism does not claim that such sin exists nor does it claim that judgements be made by someone else.

He doesn't. If we possess sins, they were created by oneself rather than being brought about by others. It is only you, who can pass judgements on yourself. Our actions, statements and thoughts, in the course of our daily life, become seeds. These seeds are sowed into our soul, where they are stored as karmas. The bad karmas accumulated over time are referred to as sins (Zaisho).

It is a very difficult question to answer. All conditions cannot be claimed as a results of karmas. There is such a thing as karma possessed by each individual. There are common karmas held jointly by families. groups or society. Additionally, matters occur through an interaction complex common karmas of cause and condition. Consequently. it cannot be simply said that it is the cause of karmas.

Karma is created by oneself rather than by someone else. It is a matter created in the past and in the present for one's future life. After all one's destiny is not determined by someone else who supasses oneselr.

We see, hear, taste and smell, feel pleasantness, unpleasantness cold and warmth by our body. They are referred to as the five senses and through their process our soul functions. In Buddhism, the process is known as the consciousness or the sixth consciousness. The founder of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, researched the world of unconcsiousness. Buddhism had also elucidated on it. This unconscious world is called Manashiki, or the seventh conscious. Buddhism states that a soul called Arayashiki or the eighth conscious exists in the inner depth of unconsciousness. Everything that we observe, hear, think about or say during our lifetime all become seeds which are planted, stored and recorded in the Arayashiki. The seeds stored in the Arayashiki becomes a spiritual energy which forms our destiny in the immediate future and over into the future life.

It is a very important question. After death, the six senses and the Manashiki will cease to exist. However, the energy within the Arayashiki will continue to exist. Therefore, the seeds stored in the Arayashiki are carried over into the future life. The bad seeds carried over from the past world that causes our unfortunate life are referred to as offenses (fault) or sins. All of us possess sins from the past world. From that standpoint, we begin our prayer service before the altar by reciting the Summary Formula of Penitence, “In order to eliminate the sins and hinderances that I have accumulated by disparaging the Dharma since the beginningless past, beginning now from the present bodily existence until I obtain the Buddha body, I will uphold the Primodial Sacred Object (the sacred formula, Namumyohorengekyo), the Primodial Altar and the Primodial Practice (Chanting of the Odaimoku).” We then entered into the chanting of the Odaimoku.