reincarnation
Noun
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Embodiment in a new form (especially the reappearance or a person in another form) (synset 110537596)
"his reincarnation as a lion"
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A second or new birth (synset 107335847)
subtypes:
- transmigration - the passing of a soul into another body after death
- cycle of rebirth - (Hinduism) repeated rebirth in new forms
same as: rebirth, renascence -
The Hindu or Buddhist doctrine that a person may be reborn successively into one of five classes of living beings (god or human or animal or hungry ghost or denizen of Hell) depending on the person's own actions (synset 106200947)
is a type of: theological doctrine - the doctrine of a religious group
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