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Article: Transmigration
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Transmigration
The term
transmigration,
from the Latin
transmigrare
(to migrate across or over), means to pass from one condition, place, or body to another. Transmigration is usually identified with the Greek word
metempsychosis
(change of soul), the "transmigration of souls" drawing on the Greek Orphic mysteries. In South Asian religions, transmigration is related to the karmic cycle where one's ...