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Definition: Samsara |
SamsaraNoun1. (Hinduism; Buddhism) the endless cycle of birth and suffering and death and rebirth. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Samsara" is a common misspelling or typo for: samara. |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Vichitra Samsara (1969) Samsara Naradi (1944) The Samsara (2001) Samsara (1991) Nagarathil Samsara Vishayam (1991) | |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In Buddhism, samsara is believed to be perpetuated by one's desires alone. In Hinduism and Jainism, karma, anuva (ego) and the veil of maya are considered as additional factors.
Buddhism teaches that when one frees from samsara he reaches nirvana; in Hinduism and Jainism, liberation from samsara is called moksha or mukti.
The possible means of achieving enlightenment differ from tradition to tradition, and generally involve austerities and the renunciation of all worldly desires. Some Hindu traditions (see bhakti movement) hold the belief that moksha may alternatively be achieved by the mercy of God.
The Mahayana Buddhist tradition teaches in the Heart Sutra that samsara and nirvana are dual aspects of the same ultimate reality. Or in other world, freedom is not reached by renouncing the world. Because they are relative to each other, they are, each of them, ultimately unreal and empty.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Samsara."
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| "Samsara" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "Samsara" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 66.67% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (singular) | 33.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 3 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
samsara | 184 |
resort samsara | 14 |
samsara perfume | 13 |
hotel samsara | 7 |
jamaica resort samsara | 5 |
buddhism samsara | 5 |
negril samsara | 5 |
hotel jamaica negril samsara | 4 |
movie samsara | 4 |
jamaica samsara | 3 |
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| Language | Translations for "samsara"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Pig Latin | amsarasay.(various references) | |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "samsara": samsaras. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "samsara" (pronounced sumsÄ"ru) |
| 3 | -Ä" r u | caracara, carbonara, tiara, vara. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: asramas, samaras. | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-a-m-r-s-s" | |
-1 letter: asrama, samara. | |
-2 letters: amass, maars, massa. | |
-3 letters: amas, arms, maar, mars, mass, rams. | |
-4 letters: aas, ama, arm, ars, ass, mar, mas, ram, ras. | |
-5 letters: aa, am, ar, as, ma. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-a-m-r-s-s" | |
+1 letter: marascas, marsalas, mascaras, samsaras. | |
+3 letters: ambassador, aspartames, samaritans. | |
+4 letters: ambassadors, metatarsals, paramnesias, salamanders. | |
+5 letters: agrarianisms, ambassadress, antimacassar, misappraisal, paronomasias, sacramentals, transaminase. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 61 6D 73 61 72 61 |
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... .- -- ... .- .-. .- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01100001 01101101 01110011 01100001 01110010 01100001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S a m s a r a |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0061 006D 0073 0061 0072 0061 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)53677985678467 |
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