Need help with kanjis for tattoo

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Uuuh ok, so my sister wants to get a tattoo with the word "karma" in kanji, she doesn't speak a word of japanese and neither I do, so she sent me some words that appeared in google when searching the word karma.

She mainly wants to know whats the difference between them lol


カルマ
宿業

Thanks in advance, don't troll pls lol
 
業 = technical, historic, esoteric, multiple meanings, not readily understandable unless you are a buddhist scholar.
カルマ = transliteration of the word karma into phonetic characters. Not readily understandable by all.
宿業 = maybe the best of the three. Slightly more comprehensible than 業 by itself.
 
Other terms with connotations of karma:
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[TR]
[TD]Kanji[/TD]
[TD]Pronuniation (kana, romaji)[/TD]
[TD]Definition[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD][/TD]
[TD]えん
en[/TD]
[TD]1. fate; destiny (esp. as a mysterious force that binds two people together)
  • 金の切れ目が縁の切れ目。
    The end of money is the end of love.
2. relationship (e.g. between two people); bond; link; connection
  • 戸籍上の縁は切れても、昔日の絆はそのままだ。
    Our connection may be cut on paper but the bonds of old remain as they were.
3. family ties; affinity

4. opportunity; chance (to meet someone and start a relationship). Only applies to えん reading

5. pratyaya (indirect conditions, as opposed to direct causes)Buddhism, Only applies to えん reading, See also [/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]宿縁[/TD]
[TD]しゅくえん
shukuen[/TD]
[TD]destiny; fate; karma[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]因縁[/TD]
[TD]いんねん
innen[/TD]
[TD]1. fate; destiny
  • 早くこの世を去ったのも彼女の因縁だ。
    It was her fate to die young.
2. connection; tie; bond; origin

3. pretext; justification

4. hetu and prataya (direct causes and indirect conditions, which underlie the actions of all things)
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]因縁生起[/TD]
[TD]いんねんせいき
innen seiki[/TD]
[TD]dependent arising; doctrine that everything has a cause and there is nothing that arises out of nothing[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]因果[/TD]
[TD]いんが
inga[/TD]
[TD]1. cause and effect; causality
2. karma; fate (Buddhism)
3. unfortunate; unlucky; ill-fated (used as Na-adjective)[/TD]
[/TR]
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