Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Associated Concepts Facet
3. Associated Concepts (hierarchy name)
4. [religions and religious concepts]
5. religious concepts
6. doctrinal concepts

Anotations

Scope note:

The doctrinal concept of the deliverance of man or his soul from evil or sin by religious means, the restoration of people to their true state, and the attainment of eternal and blessed life. God's intervention is responsible for salvation in theistic religions while in Buddhism salvation comes from escaping the cycle of birth and rebirth, thereby reaching nirvana.