samsara

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

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.

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Borrowed from Sanskrit संसार (saṃsāra).

metempsychosis reincarnation transmigration

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