concept
Transmigration of Souls
transmigration of souls
also: metempsychosis, переселение душ
The doctrine that the soul passes through a succession of bodies or life-forms after death, associated in the popular imagination chiefly with Buddhist and Hindu thought.
Reading notes
- A Few Thoughts on the Soul §3 transmigration of souls
The doctrine that the soul passes through a succession of bodies after death, associated in the Russian popular imagination chiefly with Buddhism and Hindu thought; Chekhov invokes it here for comic mock-solemnity.