Samsara
Wheel of existence
Samsara is a 1992 documentary film by Ron Fricke, a wordless meditation on human existence across cultures, and its 2011 sequel of the same name.
The title also appears in various other films, albums, and artistic works drawing on the Buddhist concept of cyclical existence. (Lowercase samsara is the spiritual concept of the cycle of rebirth.)
film
Factual film about reality
- wordlessLacking spoken content
- cinematographyMotion picture visual craft
- timelapseRecording shown greatly accelerated
- meditationFocused attention practice
documentary
Factual film about reality
- wordlessLacking spoken content
- cinematographyMotion picture visual craft
- timelapseRecording shown greatly accelerated
meditation · visual · sequel · 2011 · 1992 · cultures · humanity
- realmsrealm, kingdom, domain, Heaven, Hades
- Eco FilmsAn Inconvenient Truth, Our Planet, Planet Earth, Blue Planet, The Lorax
- SikhismGuru Granth Sahib, Sikh, Sikhs, Sikhism, gurdwara
- Hindu textsVedas, Upanishads, Mahabharata, Ramayana, Bhagavad Gita
spiritual state
Samsaranirvana
Release from cyclical existence
moksha · liberation · enlightenment · salvation · bodhi
temporal mode
Samsaranirvana
Release from cyclical existence
eternity · timelessness · cessation · the eternal · transcendence