Reaching enlightenment, also often called Nirvana, much like Hinduism, would result in an end to the constant cycle of being born and reborn. Likewise, the failure to achieve enlightenment in a given lifetime would result in reincarnation, or rebirth of the soul in a different being, later, with the status of that rebirth based on karma, or the greater good or evil accomplished by the soul in past
Reaching enlightenment, also often called Nirvana, much like Hinduism, would result in an end to the constant cycle of being born and reborn. Likewise, the failure to achieve enlightenment in a given lifetime would result in reincarnation, or rebirth of the soul in a different being, later, with the status of that rebirth based on karma, or the greater good or evil accomplished by the soul in past