>>806114i suck at religion lemme try it, take it half seriously
they got this concept called the gandhabba. the soul seeking rebirth that lands in a baby, basically the plot in most manhwa slop where the villain/hero starts his arc by turning into a baby in another life, same concept, basically the body's a vessel from a man and woman having sex, your mindstream just enters it forgetting about its previous life.
but, twist is, he keeps his karma from his previous life, which will later reflect on his current death along your current state of mind. if you died peacefully you move on to the next more favorable body, if you screamed and felt traumatic pain as you were aborted or died weeks into being a baby, it may carry that trauma into the next life.
and the part that baffles people who don't do buddhism, they don't even believe in souls, in permenant "you" that travels, There is no soul that reincarnates. There is a stream of consciousness that carries karmic imprints. ike a candle lighting another candle—the flame passes, but it's not the same flame after the 5th reincarnation..it changed