transmigrate

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Ladder�If the 20th Century does not suit, transmigrate to the 25th.

From Time Magazine Archive

In Buddhism, though the Pitakas speak continually of rebirth, metempsychosis is an incorrect expression since there is no soul to transmigrate and there is strictly speaking nothing but karma.

From Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 by Eliot, Charles, Sir

So we may justly say that this "character"—this moral and intellectual essence of a man—does veritably pass over from one fleshy tabernacle to another, ana does really transmigrate from generation to generation.

From Aphorisms and Reflections from the Works of T. H. Huxley by Huxley, T. H.

It is Manas, the animal intelligence, and the animal soul or Jiva, both half material illusions, that sin and suffer and transmigrate from one body into the other till they purify themselves.

From From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan by Blavatsky, H. P. (Helena Petrovna)

When the saint of Djachi-Loumbo, when the Bandchan-Remboutchi dies, he will not transmigrate as heretofore, in Further Thibet. 

From Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6 Volume 2 by Huc, Évariste Régis