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別の表記

• saṃsāra

語源

Borrowed from Sanskrit संसार (saṃsāra).

発音

• (General American) IPA^(key): /sʌmˈsɑɹə/

名詞

samsara (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 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 and C. A. Moore (eds.), 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 at OneLook Dictionary Search

アナグラム

• asramas, assamar, samaras