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Incarnation literally means embodied in flesh or taking on flesh. It is the conception and the embodiment of a deity or spirit in some earthly form or an anthropomorphic form of a god. It is used to mean a god, deity, or Divine Being in human or animal form on Earth. The proper noun, Incarnation, refers to the union of divinity with humanity in Jesus Christ. In Islamic literature it is called "ḥulūl".
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化身(Incarnation),在各宗教中,通常指神或精靈等超自然力量,通過某種方式,以人類或動物的形態,實體化出現在人類世界之中。在宗教文獻中,神佛由其國土來到人間,通常以化身方式出現,他的本體仍然在淨土、天堂或靈界,出現在人間的形象並非本體,而是本體的投射或變化。而且本體也可以有無限化身,比如藏傳佛教,同一時代的兩名上師可能是同一名菩薩的化身。
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