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輪廻

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Basic Meaning: transmigration

Senses:

  • (Skt. saṃsāra; Tib. khor ba) The original meaning of saṃsāra is 'flow together,' thus also translated as 流轉 as well as 'birth-and-death'  生死. This is the expression of the ancient Indian idea that all living things repeatedly pass through life and death. Like a continually spinning wheel, sentient beings are reincarnated 輪轉 and die without end. In Buddhism, one is said to transmigrate through the triple realm 三界 (desire 欲界, form 色界 and formless realms 無色界) and the six destinies 六道 (god 天上, demigod 修羅, human 人間, animal 畜生, hungry ghost 餓鬼, hell-being 地獄). [Charles Muller; source(s): Nakamura, Soothill, JEBD, Yokoi, Iwanami]
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    [Dictionary References]

    Bukkyō jiten (Ui) 1116, 1116

    Bulgyo sajeon 693a

    Zengaku daijiten (Komazawa U.) 1298c

    Iwanami bukkyō jiten 837

    Japanese-English Buddhist Dictionary (Daitō shuppansha) 234a/260

    Japanese-English Zen Buddhist Dictionary (Yokoi) 536

    Bukkyōgo daijiten (Nakamura) 1430d →りんね , 1431c

    Bukkyō daijiten (Mochizuki) (v.1-6)4974c

    Bukkyō daijiten (Oda) 1806-2

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    Entry created: 1993-09-01

    Updated: 2013-04-20