kamma (skt. karma): One’s intentional actions of body, speech, and mind that result in birth and future existence. These actions carry with them a specific moral content—good, bad, or neutral—and leave in the ongo­ing continuum of consciousness a potential to engender corresponding results in the future. Buddhism holds that all unenlightened beings are bound to be born, live, die, and be reborn again and again in a variety of worlds and circumstances, a perpetual cycle of existence that is driven by the nature of their kamma and the inevitable manifestation of its consequences.

业(kamma)：个人有意的行为、语言与意志，将带来“生”与未来的生命。业也含有行为上善、恶及中性的价值内容，并使意识将来受到相应的果报。佛教相信未开悟的众生不断出生、活着、死亡然后再出生，如此轮回于不同的生命层次中，而出生的生命层次则由众生自己所造作、无法避免的业力决定。