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Metempsychosis vs Samsara - What's the difference?

metempsychosis | samsara |

As nouns the difference between metempsychosis and samsara

is that metempsychosis is transmigration of the soul, especially its reincarnation after death while samsara is in 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.

metempsychosis

English

(wikipedia metempsychosis)

Noun

(metempsychoses)
  • Transmigration of the soul, especially its reincarnation after death.
  • *, II.11:
    • Pythagoras'' borrowed ''Metempsychosis'' of the Ægyptians, but since, it hath been received of divers Nations, and especially of our ''Druides .
  • * 1891 , (Rudyard Kipling), "The Finest Story in the World":
    • The Fates that are so careful to shut the doors of each successive life behind us had, in this case, been neglectful, and Charlie was looking, though that he did not know, where never man had been permitted to look with full knowledge since Time began. Above all he was absolutely ignorant of the knowledge sold to me for five pounds; and he would retain that ignorance, for bank-clerks do not understand metempsychosis , and a sound commercial education does not include Greek.
  • * 1922 , (James Joyce), :
    • Metempsychosis , he said, is what the ancient Greeks called it. They used to believe you could be changed into an animal or a tree, for instance. What they called nymphs, for example.
  • * 1963 , (Thomas Pynchon), :
    • To go along assuming that Victoria the girl tourist and Veronica the sewer rat were one and the same V. was not at all to bring up any metempsychosis : only to affirm that his quarry fitted in with The Big One, the century’s master cabal.
  • * 1994 , (Will Self), (My Idea of Fun) :
    • Hers was a metempsychosis of novelty, her mind a vapid thing until animated by the next absolute conviction.

    samsara

    English

    Alternative forms

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    Noun

    (-)
  • (philosophy, religion) In 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 , 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.

    See also

    * reincarnation * metempsychosis * transmigration

    External links

    * (wikipedia "samsara")

    References

    * * * " samsara" in the Wordsmyth Dictionary-Thesaurus (Wordsmyth, 2002) * " samsara" at Rhymezone (Datamuse, 2006) * Oxford English Dictionary , second edition (1989) * The Upanishads, abridged, translated and edited by Swami Nikhilananda, Harper Torchbooks, 1963, page 379

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