transmigration
Spirit's new body
Transmigration is the movement of a soul from one body to another after death—the belief that when you die, your soul passes into a new living form.
The term appears in discussions of reincarnation and metempsychosis: The doctrine of transmigration holds that souls may return as animals or humans.
More broadly, transmigration can mean any migration across boundaries: the transmigration of peoples across continents.
Soul's rebirth after death
- samsaraCycle of rebirth
- rebirthSpiritual or physical regeneration
- karmaSpiritual cause and effect
- mokshaRelease from rebirth cycle
nirvana · dharma · wheel · cycle · return · renewal · recurrence · incarnation
Innermost animating essence
- spiritSoul, mood, or liquor
- essenceFundamental nature of something
- animaInner personality essence
- atmanEternal inner self
consciousness · psyche · oversoul · etheric · ba · disembodied · incorporeal · immaterial
Permanent change of residence
- displacementRemoval from usual location
- diasporaScattered population sharing origins
- exodusMass departure from somewhere
- resettlementReestablishing in new place
movement · passage · crossing · journey · departure · arrival · border · transit
Sky or bliss
- hellUnderworld of suffering
- purgatoryPlace of temporary suffering
- underworldRealm of the departed
- limboState of uncertain waiting
paradise · afterworld · bardo · otherworld · hereafter · beyond · netherworld · judgment
Profound spiritual awakening
- liberationRelease from constraint
- salvationDeliverance from harm
- ascensionMovement to higher position
- transcendenceSurpassing usual limits
awakening · nirvana · moksha · satori · bodhi · deliverance · release · spirituality
reincarnation
Soul's rebirth after death
moksha · nirvana · dharma · wheel · cycle · return · renewal · recurrence · incarnation · reborn
soul
Innermost animating essence
atman · consciousness · psyche · oversoul · etheric · ba · disembodied · incorporeal · immaterial
relocation
Permanent change of residence
- displacementRemoval from usual location
- diasporaScattered population sharing origins
- exodusMass departure from somewhere
resettlement · movement · passage · crossing · journey · departure · arrival · border · transit · nomadic
heaven
Sky or bliss
- hellUnderworld of suffering
- purgatoryPlace of temporary suffering
- underworldRealm of the departed
limbo · paradise · afterworld · bardo · otherworld · hereafter · beyond · netherworld · judgment · elysium
enlightenment
Profound spiritual awakening
- liberationRelease from constraint
- salvationDeliverance from harm
- ascensionMovement to higher position
transcendence · awakening · nirvana · moksha · satori · bodhi · deliverance · release · spirituality · mysticism
- afterlifeheaven, hell, paradise, purgatory, limbo
- immortalityimmortality, eternal life, immortals, everlasting life, deathlessness
- Chinese fictionwuxia, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, The Three-Body Problem, palace dramas, palace intrigue
- karmacomeuppance, good deeds, poetic justice, karmic debt, what goes around comes around
- reincarnationrebirth cycle, samsara, past lives, death and rebirth, soul transfer
- OrphismOrpheus, Orphic hymns, Eurydice, mystery cult, ritual purity
transmigrationextinction
Complete vanishing of a species
annihilation · oblivion · cessation · nonexistence · finality
transmigrationeternal rest
Euphemism for death
permanence · stasis · settlement · rootedness · eternal damnation
transmigrationmoksha
Release from rebirth cycle
nirvana · liberation · release · salvation · final judgment