Transmigration vs Samsara - What's the difference?
transmigration | samsara |
Departure from one's homeland to live in another country; migration.
The movement of a soul from one body to another after death; metempsychosis.
(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:
Transmigration is a see also of samsara.
As nouns the difference between transmigration and samsara
is that transmigration is departure from one's homeland to live in another country; migration while samsara is (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.transmigration
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*samsara
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*Noun
(-)- 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 * transmigrationExternal 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