samsãra: The round of rebirth without beginning, in which all living beings revolve. Samsãra is the name given to the continuous process of being born, getting sick, growing old, and dying—an uninterrupted succes­sion of births, deaths, and rebirths. It encompasses the entire universe of sentient existence, from the grossest beings to the most refined, from the highest realms of the Immaterial World to the lowest realms of hell. All existence within this cycle is subject to change, inherently unstable, and burdened with pain and suffering, with each state of existence being determined by a being”s intentional actions of body, speech, and mind (kamma). The attainment of Nibbãna marks the complete transcendence of the world of samsãra.

　　輪回(saṃsāra)：指一切衆生無始以來生死相續的輪轉。這是衆生不斷的生、病、老、死——永無休止的生、死然後再生的過程，所以稱作輪回。整個宇宙，從最粗的到最精細的、最高的無色界到最低的地獄，所有的有情衆生都在輪回當中。在輪回中的衆生全都受無常、不穩定和痛苦所支配，衆生會生于哪個層次的生命，是取決于它們的身、語、意叁業。證得涅槃則徹底超越世間的輪回。