संसार (संस्कृत व पाली भाषेत) या बौद्ध धर्मातील संज्ञेनुसार जन्म, सांसारिक अस्तित्त्व आणि निर्वाण असे पुर्वारंभ नसलेले जीवनचक्र आहे.
[१] संसाराला दुःख, असमाधानकारक आणि वेदनादायी मानले जाते.[२] तृष्णा, अविद्येमुळे याचा परिणाम कर्मात असतो.[३][४][५]
पुनर्जन्म अस्तित्त्वाच्या सहा अवस्था होत, पैकी तीन चांगल्या (स्वर्गीय, अर्ध-देव, मानव) आणि तीन वाईट अवस्था (प्राणी, भूत, नरक)[note १] व्यक्ती निर्वाणानंतर संसार त्या व्यक्ती पुरता संपतो.[note २] "इच्छाशक्ती" त्यागातून खरी अंतर्दृष्टी प्राप्त करता येते.[७][८][९]
वैशिष्ट्ये
बौद्ध धर्मात संसार म्हणजे पुनर्जन्म व निर्वाण यांचे दुःखाने भरलेले व ज्याचा प्रारंभ व शेवट नसलेले जीवनचक्र आहे.[२][१०] In several suttas of the Samyutta Nikaya's chapter XV in particular it's said "From an inconstruable beginning comes transmigration. A beginning point is not evident, though beings hindered by ignorance and fettered by craving are transmigrating & wandering on".[११] It is the never ending repetitive cycle of birth and death, in six realms of reality (gati, domains of existence),[१२] wandering from one life to another life with no particular direction or purpose.[१३][१४]{{refn|group=note|name="realms"|Samsara is the continual repetitive cycle of rebirth within the six realms of existence:
संदर्भ आणि नोंदी
^Trainor 2004, पान. 58, Quote: "Buddhism shares with Hinduism the doctrine of Samsara, whereby all beings pass through an unceasing cycle of birth, death and rebirth until they find a means of liberation from the cycle. However, Buddhism differs from Hinduism in rejecting the assertion that every human being possesses a changeless soul which constitutes his or her ultimate identity, and which transmigrates from one incarnation to the next..
^Choong 1999, पान. 28–29, Quote: "Seeing (passati) the nature of things as impermanent leads to the removal of the view of self, and so to the realisation of nirvana.".