Samsara
- Created by: hannahmannion
- Created on: 17-05-16 12:16
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- Samsara
- literally means 'wandering on'
- Sanskrit = round and round
- Cyclical process continued through human tendency to attach to material things and life
- Sanskrit = round and round
- measured in kalpas and eons (vast)
- Abstract concept with no empirical proof
- Flame of one candle lighting another
- Wheel of life = six realms and twelve links
- 3 good realms, 3 bad realms
- No known origination / beginning of Samsara
- Human realm = best
- P Harvey = 'a marvellous opportunity for spiritual development'
- 12 links/niddanas forms outer circle
- Paticca Samuppada / Dependent Origination
- Craving and Karma = constant rebirth
- Paticca Samuppada / Dependent Origination
- 3 good realms, 3 bad realms
- Three Mental Poisons at the centre of wheel
- Causes of rebirth
- Bopdhisattva = one whos essence is enlightenment
- Delay their own enlightenment to help others achieve it
- Wheel turned by Yamma - Lord of Death
- Karma determines path of Samsara
- literally means 'wandering on'
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