Samsaraとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• saṃsāra (transliteration)

語源

Borrowed from Sanskrit संसार (saṃsāra).

発音

• (General American) IPA: /sʌmˈsɑɹə/

名詞

samsara (countable and uncountable, plural samsaras)

1. (philosophy, religion) In Jainism, Hinduism, Buddhism, and some other eastern religions, the ongoing cycle of birth, death, and rebirth endured by human beings and all other mortal beings, and from which release is obtained by achieving the highest enlightenment.
   • 1957, S. Radhakrishnan, C. A. Moore, editors, A Sourcebook in Indian Philosophy, Princeton Univ. Press, page 38:

     Until we are released from the law of karma and reach moksha or deliverance, we will be in samsara or the time process.

参考

• reincarnation
• metempsychosis
• transmigration

参照

• The Upanishads, abridged, translated and edited by Swami Nikhilananda, Harper Torchbooks, 1963, page 379.

Further reading

• “samsara”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

アナグラム

• asramas, assamar, samaras