Glossary Term
Risk: Critical- Approved rendering
- 复活
- Transliteration
- fùhuó
- Rejected alternatives
- 轮回, 投胎, 还魂
Resurrection
CRITICAL: NEVER use 轮回 (lúnhuí, the cycle of reincarnation) or 投胎 (tóutāi, being reborn into a new womb) — both are Buddhist rebirth concepts describing an ongoing cycle, the opposite of a once-for-all bodily resurrection. Avoid 还魂 (huánhún), a folk/Daoist trope of a spirit returning to reanimate a corpse (associated with ghost stories), which trivializes the doctrine into folklore.