The Buddhist doctrines of karma and transmigration of the soul brought to China a new concept of the afterlife, shattering the age-old convention that the dead invariably turn into ghosts.
佛教東來中國之後，帶來新的死後世界觀﹘﹘六道輪迴、轉世托生，打破了「人死為鬼」的千年鐵律。