Buddhism doesn't work that way. Merely believing in some doctrine about reincarnation or rebirth has no purpose. Buddhism is a practice that enables experiencing illusion as illusion and reality as reality. The Buddha taught that our delusional belief in me causes our many dissatisfactions with life (dukkha).
Or read on for a primer. On the evening of February 26, Trayvon Martinâan unarmed 17-year-old African American studentâwas confronted, shot, and killed near his home by George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch captain in Sanford, Florida.
Quick Answer. Martin Luther King Jr. died after being shot by a sniper while at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tenn., in 1968; the exact motivation of the assassin, James Earl Ray, remains a mystery. King was a major leader in the United States civil rights movement, and Ray is known to have held segregationist views.