生しょう死じ流る転てん

noun, noun or participle which takes 'suru'

endless cycle of birth, death, and rebirth; transmigration of souls

A Buddhist yojijukugo expressing the concept of samsara: the continuous flux of life and death through reincarnation. Used in religious or philosophical contexts.

• 仏ぶっ教きょうでは、生しょう死じ流る転てんの輪りん廻ねから解げ脱だつすることを目め指ざす。

  In Buddhism, one aims to attain liberation from the cycle of birth, death, and rebirth.

• この経きょう典てんは生しょう死じ流る転てんの苦くるしみを説といている。

  This sutra expounds the suffering of the endless cycle of birth and death.