metempsychoses

It was at one of these periods that God created the earth, where the penitent angels underwent several metempsychoses, one of the last of which was their transformation into cows.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

The first ten chapters, if of a kind of satire which has now grown rather obsolete for the nonce, are of a good kind and good in their kind; the history of the metempsychoses of Julian is of a less good kind, and less good in that kind.

The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon 2004

East; and his doctrine of Nirvana supplied an antidote to the belief in a practically interminable series of metempsychoses current at the time.

Religion in Japan

If I were to follow my poor Joliet through all his transmigrations and metempsychoses, as I have learned them by his hints, allusions and confessions, I should show him by turns working a rope ferry, where the stupid and indolent cattle, whose business it is to draw men, were drawn by him; then letter-carrier; supernumerary and call-boy in a village theatre; road-mender on a vicinal route; then a beadle,

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873 Various

The first ten chapters, if of a kind of satire which has now grown rather obsolete for the nonce, are of a good kind and good in their kind; the history of the metempsychoses of Julian is of a less good kind, and less good in that kind.

The Works of Henry Fielding, Volume Six: Miscellanies 1900

Through twenty-five million six hundred thousand Asongkhies, or metempsychoses, -- according to the overpowering computation of his priests, -- did Buddha struggle to attain the divine omniscience of

The English Governess at the Siamese Court Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok Anna Harriette Leonowens 1874

This is an edifice of unique and charming beauty, decorated throughout by artists from Japan, who have represented on the walls, in designs as diverse and ingenious as they are costly, the numerous metempsychoses of Buddha.

The English Governess at the Siamese Court Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok Anna Harriette Leonowens 1874

Whosoever abstains from these forbidden things is said to “observe Silah”; and whosoever shall faithfully observe Silah, in all his successive metempsychoses, shall continually increase in virtue and purity, until at length he shall become worthy to behold God, and hear his voice; and so he shall obtain Niphan.

The English Governess at the Siamese Court Leonowens, Anna H 1870

This is an edifice of unique and charming beauty, decorated throughout by artists from Japan, who have represented on the walls, in designs as diverse and ingenious as they are costly, the numerous metempsychoses of Buddha.

The English Governess at the Siamese Court Leonowens, Anna H 1870

All the metempsychoses depend on the imagination of the family Gurus, who receive for their kind offices from one hundred to one hundred and fifty rupees a year.

From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan 1861