transmigration

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The thought behind Pythagoras' transmigration view is that humans and animals are alike.

From Salon • Nov. 27, 2024

He had forgotten the names of some of his dogs, she said, and where his bedroom was, but “we had this high-level conversation about the transmigration of souls.”

From New York Times • Sep. 2, 2022

This informs the belief that an individual will bear a future burden for harms committed in the present through the process of samsara, or transmigration and rebirth of the soul.

From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022

“Infinite” may last a finite 106 minutes, but transmigration of souls or no transmigration of souls, life is too short.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2021

Or did they wish by their art of embalmment to preserve the body from decay, in order to deliver the soul from the dreaded transmigration?

From The Philosophy of History, Vol. 1 of 2 by Schlegel, Friedrich