user23535: 
A soul from a previous generation is reincarnated in a later
generation into a specific set of circumstances which are tailored to
engineer a rectification of a previous sin

Are there instances in Buddhist scripture or history where there is a confirmation of the above statement as being typical, or being the purpose, of reincarnation?
Don't know if sin prefigures in Buddhist thought or has connections to reincarnation, but the source of the quote above is drawn from Judaism and Kabbalah's conceptualization of reincarnation, which they do relate to sin.

user23545: There is no soul in Buddhism and it is not the same mind that persists going from one life to another.
It's as if one was to light a fire from another fire, the two fires are not technically the same fire but one is a cause & requisite condition for another and in that sense they are a linked and are in a sense "a fire".
The mental truths are such as feelings, thoughts, perception, things that aren't measured in mass. These are also with a cause, this or that mentality is linked to previous development and one's mentality does not become extinguished if there are causes for it's maintenance as fuel.
Buddha taught how to remove the causes for the arising of mentality and the truth & reality of it's cessation principle.

user-1: There's not an entity or being that gets reincarnated. That's a misunderstanding of reality and Buddhism.

23535: <blockquote>
<p>A soul from a previous generation is reincarnated in a later
generation into a specific set of circumstances which are tailored to
engineer a rectification of a previous sin</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Are there instances in Buddhist scripture or history where there is a confirmation of the above statement as being typical, or being the purpose, of reincarnation?</p>
<p>Don't know if sin prefigures in Buddhist thought or has connections to reincarnation, but the source of the quote above is drawn from Judaism and Kabbalah's conceptualization of reincarnation, which they do relate to sin.</p>
 23545: <p>There is no soul in Buddhism and it is not the same mind that persists going from one life to another.</p>
<p>It's as if one was to light a fire from another fire, the two fires are not technically the same fire but one is a cause &amp; requisite condition for another and in that sense they are a linked and are in a sense &quot;a fire&quot;.</p>
<p>The mental truths are such as feelings, thoughts, perception, things that aren't measured in mass. These are also with a cause, this or that mentality is linked to previous development and one's mentality does not become extinguished if there are causes for it's maintenance as fuel.</p>
<p>Buddha taught how to remove the causes for the arising of mentality and the truth &amp; reality of it's cessation principle.</p>
 -1: <p>There's not an entity or being that gets reincarnated. That's a misunderstanding of reality and Buddhism.</p>
