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The 35 pages that link to Samsara, each with the reason it gives.

• BodhisattvaRelated: Bodhisattvas seek liberation while remaining engaged with beings caught in this cycle.

• HinduismRelated: Many Hindu paths seek release from this cycle, though they explain its cause and end differently.

• UpanishadsRelated: The Upanishadic pursuit of liberation addresses bondage to repeated existence.

• MokshaRelated: Moksha is release from this cycle.

• BhaktiRelated: Bhakti is often understood as a way beyond this cycle.

• Bhagavad GitaRelated: The Gita’s disciplines aim to free beings from repeated birth and death.

• NirvanaCompared with: Nirvana is liberation from the cycle that samsara names.

• BrahmanRelated: Knowledge of Brahman is presented as a way beyond this cycle in several schools.

• AtmanRelated: Many doctrines of Atman explain what persists through this cycle.

• Karma in BuddhismNarrower topic: Karmic conditioning sustains this cycle until liberation.

• BuddhahoodCompared with: It is the cycle from which buddhahood brings liberation.

• Merit (Buddhism)Narrower topic: Merit's favorable results operate within this broader cycle of conditioned existence.

• Jnana YogaNarrower topic: Liberation through knowledge is framed as release from this cycle.

• Jōdo ShinshūNarrower topic: Jōdo Shinshū frames liberation as escape from this cycle through birth in Amida’s Pure Land.

• BardoNarrower topic: Bardo states occur within this cycle unless they lead to liberation.

• Indian philosophyRelated: Many schools frame liberation as release from this cycle, while disagreeing about its nature.

• Jataka talesRelated: The tales place the Bodhisatta’s lives within repeated rebirths.

• LamrimRelated: Lamrim’s early stages examine the unsatisfactory nature of existence in this cycle.

• TirthankaraRelated: A Tirthankara has crossed beyond the cycle from which Jain practice seeks release.

• Bodhisattva vowRelated: The vow directs its liberating aim toward beings caught in this cycle.

• PratītyasamutpādaRelated: Dependent conditions explain how cyclic existence continues without an enduring self.

• NibbanaCompared with: Nibbana is liberation from the cycle that saṃsāra names.

• TrimurtiRelated: Cosmic creation and dissolution echo the recurring cycles found in Hindu thought.

• ĀjīvikaRelated: Ājīvika accounts placed lives within a fixed progression through repeated births.

• MetempsychosisNarrower topic: Metempsychosis describes a soul’s passage within a broader cycle of repeated existence.

• Rebirth in BuddhismNarrower topic: Rebirth is one occurrence within this larger cycle of conditioned existence.

• BarzakhCompared with: It describes repeated lives, not the single post-death interval denoted by barzakh.

• Jōdo-shūRelated: Jōdo-shū presents birth in the Pure Land as release from this cycle’s constraints.

• ŚramaṇaRelated: Śramaṇas sought release from the cycle of rebirth.

• KhemaCompared with: Khema’s renunciation and insight are understood as a way beyond this cycle.

• The Sea of FertilityNarrower topic: The novels’ recurring lives draw on this broader idea of repeated existence.

• Eastern religionsRelated: Liberation from this cycle is a shared concern, though traditions explain it differently.

• HindusRelated: It frames the cycle from which many Hindu paths seek liberation.

• Indian religionsRelated: The cycle gives liberation its shared point of departure.

• Refuge in BuddhismCompared with: Refuge is directed toward release from samsara rather than security within its conditions.