'khor ba

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• Cyclic Existence [GD]

1) turn in a circle 2) turn the head = attract someone's attention; 3) apprehension; 4) congregate/ live; 5) samsara)/ [syn: la sngon chad dang, 'jig rten, thun mong chos, sdug bsngal 'byung gnas, ma rig khams, gtzug lag dang po, zhi 'dzin pa, yang srid, srid pa] turn round/ about, go round, circle, turn, spin, rotate, cycle, revolve, take one's turn, go around, wander, walk around, circumambulate, ramble, move around, be surrounded, encircled, return, travel through, transmigrate, be present, hang around, be drawn to, be magnetized, surround, encircle, gather, think of, come to one's mind, elapse, complete a cycle (of time), spin (of the head) life-cycle, revolution, cyclical existence (of sentient beings who suffer through the round of rebirth) transmigratory existence, round of existence, vicious circle, sangsara, samsaric world, world.] [IW]

samsara, fictitious being, turn, use, utilize, apply, cyclical existence, transmigration, walk around, revolve, cycle, rotate, wheel, world, turn round, circumambulate, walk all round, elapse, be completed, be formed, perfected, rotatory existence, round of transmigration, cyclic existence, cyclic life, to linger in [JV]

cyclic existence [thd]

Samsara. 'Cyclic existence,' 'vicious circle' or 'round' of birth and death and rebirth within the six realms of existence, characterized by suffering, impermanence, and ignorance. The state of ordinary sentient beings fettered by ignorance and dualistic perception, karma and disturbing emotions. Ordinary reality, an endless cycle of frustration and suffering generated as the result of karma [RY]

to turn around [RY]

1) turn in a circle; 2) turn the head = attract someone's attention; 3) apprehension; 4) congregate/ live; 5) samsara [IW]

cyclic life [RY]

cyclic existence/ samsara; to be caught up in/ move through/ circle in samsara [RB]

to be caught in cyclic existence [RY]

to rotate, spin; Samsara, cyclical existence, [samsara]; 'khor ba, 'khor ba, 'khor ba intr. v.; 1) to turn round, to turn about, to go round, 2) Samsara, samsaric world. cyclic existence/ samsara. life-cycle, revolution, the cyclical existence of sentient beings who suffer through the round of rebirth. phenomenal, transmigratory existence, round of existence, vicious circle. v. to circle, turn, spin, rotate, cycle, revolve, take one's turn, go around, to wander, walk around, circumambulate, ramble, move around. 3) to be surrounded, encircled. 4) to return. 5) travel through, transmigrate. 6) presence. 7) to be present, hang around, be attracted, drawn to, magnetized. 8) to surround, encircle. Syn skor ba 9) to attract, magnetize, draw to, in, gather. Syn bsdu 10) to think of, come to one's mind. 11) to elapse, complete a cycle [of time] 12) to spin [of the head], be dizzy 13) world [RY]

Samsara ('khor ba): the wheel or round of existence; the state of being unenlightened in which the mind, enslaved by the three poisons of desire, anger and ignorance, evolves uncontrolled from one state to another, passing through an endless stream of psycho-physical experiences all of which are characterized by suffering. It is only when one has realized the empty nature of phenomena et dispelled all mental obscurations that one can free oneself from samsara. [MR]

samsara, fictitious being, turn, use, utilize, apply, cyclical existence, transmigration, walk around, revolve, cycle, rotate, wheel, world, turn round, circumambulate, walk all round, elapse, be completed, be formed, perfected, rotatory existence, round of transmigration, cyclic existence, cyclic life, to linger in, spin [JV]