Encyclopedia - Samsara: Encyclopedia - Samsara
In Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and other related religions, samsara or saṃsāra refers to the concept of reincarnation or rebirth in In...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Samsara: Encyclopedia Ii - Samsara - Samsara In Surat Shabda Yoga
In Surat Shabda Yoga, the purpose is to realize the individual's True Self (Self-Realization), True Essence (Spirit-Realization) and True...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Samsara: Encyclopedia Ii - Samsara - Saṃsāra In Jainism
In Jainism, karma, anuva (ego) and the veil of maya are central. In Jainism, liberation from samsara is called moksha or mukti. ... See...   » Read the article

Article - Samsara: How To Break The Bond Of Samsara
The chains that tie you to this wheel of Samsara or Bhava-Chakra or round of births and deaths, are your desires. So long as you desire o...   » Read the article

Article - Buddhist Quotes: Wandering In Samsara
Buddhist Quotes: Wandering in Samsara   Owing to worldly beliefs, which he is free to accept or reject, a person wanders in Sam...   » Read the article

Article - Meditation: Benefits Of Meditation
This world is full of miseries and sufferings. If you want to get rid of the pains and afflictions of this Samsara, you must practice med...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Samsara: Encyclopedia Ii - Samsara - Saṃsāra In Buddhism
Samsara - Saṃsāra in Nikaya Buddhism. Whereas in Hinduism some being (ātman, jiva, etc.) is regarded as being subject to Saṃsāra...   » Read the article

Article - Bhikkhu
In Pāli, a bhikkhu (male) or bhikkhuni (female) is a fully ordained Buddhist monk. The respective Sanskrit versions are bhikṣu and bhi...   » Read the article

Article - Meditation: Hints On Meditation
What does a passionate man do? He repeats the same ignominious act again and again and fills his stomach as many times as he can. What do...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Skandha: Encyclopedia - Skandha
The Five Skandhas (Sanskrit: pañca-skandha, Pāli: pañca-khandha; literally: pañca, five; skandha, heap or bundle) are the five aggreg...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Twelve Nidanas: Encyclopedia - Twelve Nidanas
The Twelve Nidanas (Pali: nidana- foundation, source or origin) are the application of the Buddhist concept of Pratitya-samutpada (depend...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Samsara: Hindu - Hinduism Dictionary On Samsara
samsara: (Sanskrit) "Flow." The phenomenal world. Transmigratory existence, fraught with impermanence and change.   Th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Six Lower Realms: Encyclopedia - Six Lower Realms
In traditional Mahayana Buddhist cosmology, the six lower realms are six of the ten spiritual realms; these six realms compose samsara. S...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ghost: Encyclopedia - Ghost
A ghost is an alleged non-corporeal manifestation of a dead person (or, rarely, an animal). It is often thought to be the spirit or soul ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Paramita: Encyclopedia - Paramita
Pāramitā (Sanskrit) or Parami (Pāli): "Perfection" or "Transcendent". In Buddhism, the Paramitas refer to the perfection or culminatio...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Upadana: Encyclopedia - Upadana
The Sanskrit word Upadana has the following meanings: Upadana - Buddhism. Upadana translated from Sanskrit means clinging or grasping a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Darshan: Encyclopedia - Darshan
Shruti (primary scriptures): Vedas | Upanishads | Bhagavad Gita | Itihasa (Ramayana & Mahabharata) | Agamas Smriti (other texts...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Catharsis Band: Encyclopedia - Catharsis Band
Catharsis was an anarchist hardcore punk band, releasing their albums with the collective CrimethInc. Some members went on to form the ba...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Om Mani Padme Hum: Encyclopedia - Om Mani Padme Hum
"Om mani padme hum" (Tibetan: there is no translation directly, the pali or sanskrit is always used. Pronunciation varies, see the transl...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sadhana: Encyclopedia - Sadhana
Sadhana means spiritual exercise by a Sadhu or a Sadhaka to attain a desired goal. The goal of sadhana is to attain some stage, which ca...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Avidya: Encyclopedia - Avidya
Avidya, pronounced avidyā, is a Sanskrit word meaning Ignorance, delusion, unlearned, unwise. It is used extensively in Buddhist and Hin...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bhikkhu: Encyclopedia - Bhikkhu
In Pāli, a bhikkhu (male) or bhikkhuni (female) is a fully ordained Buddhist monk. The respective Sanskrit versions are bhikṣu and bhi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hari: Encyclopedia - Hari
Hari is another name of Vishnu or God and appears as the 650th name in the Vishnu sahasranama. According to Adi Sankara' s commentary on ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Atman Buddhism: Encyclopedia - Atman Buddhism
Atman is a Sanskrit word, normally translated as 'soul' or 'self' (also ego). In Buddhism, the concept of Atman is the prime consequence ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Impermanence: Encyclopedia - Impermanence
Impermanence (Sanskrit: anitya; Pali anicca; Tibetan: mi rtag pa; Chinese: 無常, wúcháng; Japanese: mujō) is one of the essential do...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Samsara: A Spiritual Dictionary On Samsara
Samsara: The objective world, sea of change, cycle of birth and death.   (See also: Samsara , Body Mind and Soul)      » Read the article

Dictionary - Samsara: Indian Hindu Dictionary On Samsara
samsara: the process of the wordly life through successive births and deaths.   (See also: samsara , Hinduism, Yoga, Body Mind ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Samsara: Bhakti Yoga Dictionary Ii On Samsara
samsara The cycle of repeated birth and death, which continues until one gives up one’s rebellion against the Supreme Lord. &n...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Samsara: Bhakti Yoga Dictionary On Samsara
Samsara - (1) material existence; the cycle of repeated birth and death. (2) householder life; domestic life.   (See also: ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Samsara: Buddhist - Buddhism Dictionary On Samsara
Samsara Cycle of rebirths; realms of Birth and Death.    (See also: Samsara , Buddhism, Body Mind and Soul)      » Read the article

Dictionary - Samsara: Zen And Buddhism Dictionary On Samsara
Samsara: The endless cycle of reincarnation; transmigration. Literally means to move about continuously.    (See also: Sa...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Samsara: New Age Spirituality Dictionary On Samsara
Samsara (Buddhist) The opposite of Nirvana. It is the world we live in now - the world of illusion, . passion; attachment to people an...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Samsara: Eastern Philosophy Dictionary On Samsara
Samsara: Hindu notion of reincarnation in which one's present life is followed by a series of new lives in new physical bodies. &nbs...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Samsara: Spiritual Yoga Dictionary Ii On Samsara
SAMSARA: The process of worldly life.   (See also: SAMSARA ,Yoga, Yoga Dictionary)      » Read the article

Dictionary - Samsara: Spiritual Yoga Dictionary Iv On Samsara
Samsara:   Samsara ("confluence"): the finite world of change, as opposed to the ultimate Reality (brahman or nirvana...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Samsara: Spiritual Yoga Dictionary Iii On Samsara
Samsara: The world of change and becoming; the relative world.   (See also: Samsara ,Yoga, Yoga Dictionary)      » Read the article

Dictionary - Samsara: Pali Buddhist Buddhism Dictionary On Samsara
samsara (sa"msaara): Transmigration; the round of death and rebirth. See vatta.    (See also: Samsara , Buddhism, B...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Twelve Nidanas: Encyclopedia Ii - Twelve Nidanas - The Twelve Nidana
Twelve Nidanas - Notes. The above cycle is frequently seen as relating to "Lifetimes" which they do, but additionally and probably more...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Samsara: Sanskrit Hinduism Dictionary Iii On Samsara (samsaara)
samsara: samsara (samsaara). The objective world; sea of change; cycle of birth and death; transmigration.   (See also: sam...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Samsara: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Samsara
Samsara (Sanskrit) {BCW 3:89, 13:75; FSO 537}   (See also: Samsara , Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary)      » Read the article

Dictionary - Samsara: Hinduism Sanskrit Dictionary Iv On Samsara
Samsara: Samsara: life through repeated births and  deaths; the process of worldly life.   (See also: Samsara , Hindui...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Twelve Nidanas: Encyclopedia Ii - Twelve Nidanas - Summary
The basic principle of pratitya-samutpada and the Twelve Nidanas is to see the conditioned causal connection of each state that supports ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Samsara: Sanskrit Hinduism Dictionary Ii On Samsara
samsara: worldly life or reincarnation   (See also: samsara , Hinduism, Hinduism Dictionary, Sanskrit Dictionary, Body Mind a...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Samsara: Sanskrit Dictionary On Samsara
Samsara: The world of change and becoming; the relative world.   (See also: Samsara , Sanskrit Dictionary, Body Mind and Soul...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Samsara: Hindu Sanskrit Dictionary Iii On Samsara
SAMSARA: the wheel of transmigration, cycle of birth and death   (See also: SAMSARA , Hinduism, Hinduism Dictionary, Sanskrit ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Vatta: Pali Buddhist Buddhism Dictionary On Vatta
vatta (va.t.ta): The cycle of birth, death, and rebirth. This denotes both the death and rebirth of living beings and the death and re...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Samsara Chakra: Spiritual Yoga Dictionary I On Samsara Chakra
Samsara Chakra - Wheel of death and birth.   (See also: Samsara Chakra ,Yoga, Yoga Dictionary)      » Read the article

Dictionary - Sagga: Pali Buddhist Buddhism Dictionary On Sagga
sagga (sagga): Heaven, heavenly realm. The dwelling place of the devas. Rebirth in the heavens is said to be one of the rewards for pr...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Samsara: Tantra Tantric Dictionary On Samsara
Samsara: Samsara. The wheel or ocean of life and death. Wheel of time. Combinations of Shiva's 3 Shaktis that create diversity in t...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Samsara: Hindu Sanskrit Dictionary On Samsara
Samsara: Life through repeated births and deaths; the wheel of birth and death; the process of earthly life.   (See also: Sams...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Samsara: Sanskrit Hinduism Dictionary On Samsara
samsara: The wheel or ocean of life and death. Wheel of time. Combinations of shiva's 3 Shaktis which create diversity in the cosmos....   » Read the article

Dictionary - Samsara-vriksha: Sanskrit Hinduism Dictionary Iii On Samsara-vriksha (samsaara-vriksha)
samsara-vriksha: samsara-vriksha (samsaara-vriksha). Tree of worldly illusion.   (See also: samsara-vriksha , Hinduism, Hin...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Twelve Nidanas: Encyclopedia Ii - Twelve Nidanas - The Whole Description
This section considers which conditions apply to which part of the dependent origination. Ignorance conditions creations, activities A...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Sangsara: Tantra Tantric Dictionary On Sangsara
Sangsara: Sangsara. See: Samsara   (See also: Sangsara , Tantra, Tantra Dictionary, Body Mind and Soul)      » Read the article

Dictionary - Sangsara: Sanskrit Hinduism Dictionary On Sangsara
sangsara: See: samsara   (See also: sangsara , Hinduism, Hinduism Dictionary, Sanskrit Dictionary, Body Mind and Soul) &nbs...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Samsari: Hindu - Hinduism Dictionary On Samsari
samsari: (Sanskrit) "One in samsara; wanderer."   A soul during transmigration, immersed in or attached to mundane exi...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Law Of Karma: Eastern Philosophy Dictionary On Law Of Karma
Law of Karma: Hindu view that the good and bad consequences of one's actions affect one's status in future lives (samsara)   &n...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ghost: Encyclopedia Ii - Ghost - Ghosts In Fiction
Ghost - Ghost messengers. A popular genre of literature from the early Renaissance to the early twentieth century was the Dialogues of ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Moksha: Zen And Buddhism Dictionary On Moksha
Moksha: In Hindu tradition, the escape from samsara, which can only be attained by a member of the brahmin caste, with a balanced karm...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Vajra: Encyclopedia Ii - Vajra - Symbolism
The vajra is made up of several parts: In the center is a sphere which represents Sunyata, the primordial nature of the universe, the und...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Implicate And Explicate Order According To David Bohm: Encyclopedia Ii - Implicate And Explicate Order According To David Bohm - David Bohm's Challenges To Some Generally Prevailing Views
In proposing this new notion of order, Bohm explicitly challenged a number of tenets that are fundamental to much scientific work. The te...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Moksha: Eastern Philosophy Dictionary On Moksha
Moksha: "Release"; Hindu notion of the ending of the cycle of reincarnation (samsara); also associated with the highest stag...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Avidya: Zen And Buddhism Dictionary On Avidya
Avidya: In Hinduism this is one of the conditions involved in samsara and reincarnation, meaning ignorance. This is ignorance of spiri...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Malkuth: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Malkuth
MALKUTH This is the tenth power chakra. "The Kingdom", or lower-most circle of the Tree of Life. Corresponds in Buddhism to ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Subecha: Spiritual Sanskrit Dictionary On Subecha
Subecha: longing for the Truth. Rightly distinguish between permanent & impermanent. Cultivated dislike for worldly pleasures. Acq...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Taraka Mantra: Hindu Sanskrit Dictionary On Taraka Mantra
Taraka Mantra: From the root word tara-that which crosses. The Taraka Mantra is that which enables its invokers to cross over the ocea...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ghost: Encyclopedia Ii - Ghost - Beliefs About Ghosts
Ghosts are often depicted of a human size and shape (although some accounts also mention animal ghosts), but typically described as "silv...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ghost: Encyclopedia Ii - Ghost - Skeptical Analysis
While some accept ghosts as a reality, many others are skeptical of the existence of ghosts. For example, the vast majority of the scient...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ghost: Encyclopedia Ii - Ghost - Famous Ghosts
It seems likely that the building with the most distinguished ghosts as rumored tenants is the Tower of London, which is reported to be h...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Para-nirvana: Zen And Buddhism Dictionary On Para-nirvana
Para-nirvana (Pari-nibbana): The ultimate state of harmony within the ultimate state of awareness. Para means death, so this is death ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Arahat: Zen And Buddhism Dictionary On Arahat
Arahat: (Arahant) One who has reached the final stage of spiritual progress, meaning "the worthy." This is a Pali word used ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Atman Buddhism: Encyclopedia Ii - Atman Buddhism - The Ontological Status Of Atman In Buddhism
As Atman is identified as the cause of Samsara, it is not merely cognate with the various concepts of Atman as found in Hindu philosophy ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Conditioned (compounded): Buddhist - Buddhism Dictionary On Conditioned (compounded)
Conditioned (compounded) Describes all the various phenomena in the world - made up of separate, discrete elements, "with outflo...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Three Realms (triple Realm, Three Worlds): Buddhist - Buddhism Dictionary On Three Realms (triple Realm, Three Worlds)
Three Realms (Triple Realm, Three Worlds) The realms of desire (our world), form (realms of the lesser deities) and formlessness (rea...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Implicate And Explicate Order According To David Bohm: Encyclopedia Ii - Implicate And Explicate Order According To David Bohm - Quantum Entanglement
Central to Bohm's schema is the notion that correlations between observables of entities which seem separated by great distances in the E...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Moksha: Hindu - Hinduism Dictionary On Moksha
moksha: (Sanskrit) "Liberation."   Release from transmigration, samsara, the round of births and deaths, which occurs ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Implicate And Explicate Order According To David Bohm: Encyclopedia Ii - Implicate And Explicate Order According To David Bohm - The Hologram As Analogy For The Implicate Order
Bohm employed the hologram as a means of characterising Implicate Order, noting that each region of a photographic plate in which a holog...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Implicate And Explicate Order According To David Bohm: Encyclopedia Ii - Implicate And Explicate Order According To David Bohm - A Common Grounding For Consciousness And Matter
The Implicate Order represents the proposal of a general metaphysical concept in terms of which it is claimed that matter and consciousne...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Implicate And Explicate Order According To David Bohm: Encyclopedia Ii - Implicate And Explicate Order According To David Bohm - Connections With Other Works
Many, along with Bohm himself, have seen strong connections between his ideas and ideas from the East. There are particularly strong conn...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Om Mani Padme Hum: Encyclopedia Ii - Om Mani Padme Hum - English Transliteration
In English the mantra is variously transliterated, depending on the schools of Buddhism as well as individual teachers. Possible translit...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Om Mani Padme Hum: Encyclopedia Ii - Om Mani Padme Hum - Meaning
Another meaning is purification of the six realms of existence in suffering. Om mani padme hum - Karandavyuha Sutra definition. The fir...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Six Lower Realms: Encyclopedia Ii - Six Lower Realms - Good Realms
Note that the order of the realms may differ among different Buddhist traditions; for instance, some traditions place the asura realm sec...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Six Lower Realms: Encyclopedia Ii - Six Lower Realms - Evil Realms
Six lower realms - Hungry ghost realm. Hungry ghost realm (also Pretas realm) is based on possessiveness and desire. The reason why sen...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Avidya: Encyclopedia Ii - Avidya - Buddhist Concept
Avidya plays a key role in Buddhism and Buddhist doctrine and is the primary cause of suffering in Samsara. Avidya is one of the Three F...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Three Marks Of Existence: Encyclopedia Ii - Three Marks Of Existence - Interpretations Of The Three Marks By Various Schools
Some Buddhist traditions assert that Anatta pervades everything, and is not limited to personality, or soul. These traditions assert that...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Dwipa: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Dwipa
Dwipa (Sanskrit). An island or a continent. The Hindus have seven (Sapta dwipa ); the Buddhists only four. This is owing to a misunder...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Borobudur: Encyclopedia Ii - Borobudur - Structure
Viewed from above, Borobudur takes the form of a giant mandala, symbolically depicting the path of the bodhisattva from samsara to nirvan...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Consciousness-only: Encyclopedia Ii - Consciousness-only - Doctrine
According to the Vijñānavādins, embedded at the heart of Buddhism lies a seeming paradox. In contrast to the Brahmanic teachings of th...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Brahmin: Zen And Buddhism Dictionary On Brahmin
Brahmin: The Hindu caste system has four major castes, which in order of rank are: servants, merchants, warriors (ruling caste), and t...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Liberation: Hindu - Hinduism Dictionary On Liberation
liberation: Moksha, release from the bonds of pasha, after which the soul is liberated from samsara (the round of births and deaths). ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Alaya Consciousness: Buddhist - Buddhism Dictionary On Alaya Consciousness
Alaya Consciousness The fundamental consciousness of all sentient beings.   As defined by the Yogacara School, Alaya means the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hare Krishna: Encyclopedia Ii - Hare Krishna - History
The mantra is first attested in the kalisaṇṭāraṇopaniṣad (Kali Santarana Upanishad), a Vaishnava Upanishad associated with the B...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bodhisattva: Encyclopedia Ii - Bodhisattva - Bodhisattvas In Mahayana Buddhism
In Mahayana Buddhism, a bodhisattva has the compassionate determination to aid all beings on their quest for the highest state of develop...   » Read the article

Dictionary -  : Mysticism Magick Dictionary On  
WHEEL OF FORTUNE Destiny and Karma. The 10th and central Arcanum, circumscribed by the tetramorph and lettered Caph. It is the pathway...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Surat Shabd Yoga: Encyclopedia Ii - Surat Shabd Yoga - Basic Principles
The stated purpose of Surat Shabda Yoga is to realize the individual's True Self (Self-Realization), True Essence (Spirit-Realization) an...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Tolerance Of Non-birth: Buddhist - Buddhism Dictionary On Tolerance Of Non-birth
Tolerance of Non-Birth "Tolerance" (insight) that comes from the knowledge that all phenomena are unborn. Sometimes transla...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Paramita: Buddhist - Buddhism Dictionary On Paramita
Paramita: Refers to the six practices, the perfection of which ferries one beyond the sea of suffering and mortality to Nirvana. &nb...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Pure Land: Buddhist - Buddhism Dictionary On Pure Land
Pure Land Generic term for the realms of the Buddhas.   In this text it denotes the Land of Ultimate Bliss or Western Land of A...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Samsara: Encyclopedia Ii - Samsara - Saṃsāra In Hinduism
In some types of Hinduism, Saṃsāra is seen as ignorance of the True Self, Brahman, and thus the soul is led to believe in the reality ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Samsara: Encyclopedia Ii - Samsara - Cycle Of Rebirth
In most Indian philosophical traditions, including the orthodox Hindu and heterodox Buddhist and Jain systems, an ongoing cycle of birth,...   » Read the article