'khor ba

'khor ba

A state of involuntary existence conditioned by afflicted mental states and the imprint of past actions, characterised by suffering in a cycle of life, death, and rebirth. On its reversal, the contrasting state of nirvāṇa is attained, free from suffering and the processes of rebirth.

An unending series of unenlightened existences.

The conditioned realm of cyclic existence in which beings are confined to perpetual suffering and unsatisfactoriness.

The continuum of repeated birth and death.

The cycle of birth and death; that is, life as experienced by living beings under the influence of ignorance, not any sort of objective world external to the persons experiencing it.

The Sanskrit means "continuation" and the Tibetan "circling." An unending series of unenlightened existences.

This term is natural, instead of either "transmigration" or "the round," because it conveys well the sense of the transformations of living things; it also connotes to all modern readers the whole span and scope of the world of living things. Sometimes "world" suffices, sometimes "evolution" is intriguing.

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