"LIFE" (Discovery Channel)

(Discovery Networks) Coming this Sunday (March 21, 2010) -- the next chapter of "LIFE" on Earth begins. An 11-part series narrated by Oprah Winfrey, it's all new on Discovery! In Buddhist cosmology, the Animal Realm – or the potential for our rebirth in an animal womb (Pali, tiracchāna-yoni, Tibetan, dud.'gro) – comprises the entire animal kingdom where individuals are capable of feeling suffering, from the smallest microbe or insect to the largest elephant or whale.

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