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According to the Buddhist scriptures, the Buddha refused to answer questions about death and the afterlife, seeing them as distractions on the path to enlightenment. Yet later Buddhism developed doctrines about different realms of existence, and where individuals went after physical death. Describe one reason for this change. How do these doctrines support or illustrate Buddhist teachings?

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