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nirvana

निर्वाण nirvana

'Blowing out'; the term for liberation in Buddhism (which does not affirm a permanent self), used more loosely in Hindu and Jain settings.

Where this term appears

  • Hinduism and Buddhism: the difference Essentials

    So the question "who is God for a Buddhist" does not have the same shape it has in Hinduism, because the Buddhist path is built without that keystone. Moksha and nirvana: the same freedom?

  • What is Diksha? Lineages

    Above him is the putraka , literally the little son, the one given the full liberating initiation, the nirvana-diksha , that guarantees release.

  • What is Diwali? Worship

    For Jains, the night of the Kartika new moon is the night Mahavira, the twenty-fourth and last of the Tirthankaras , the great teachers of the age, attained nirvana , final release.

  • What is Moksha? Essentials

    And nirvana , literally a blowing out, as of a flame, is shared with Buddhism, where it carries a meaning the Hindu schools do not accept, because Buddhist nirvana is taught without any permanent self to be lib…

  • The real meaning of Namaste Journal

    … wave of the 1960s and 1970s, the same current that carried karma and nirvana into everyday English, and somewhere in that passage it acquired its expanded meaning.

  • Sahasrara: The Thousand Petals Treatise

    …kala , the immortal sixteenth digit of the moon that never wanes, the nirvana-kala , and the supreme nirvana-shakti , luminous, the text says, as a million suns, the mother of the three worlds.

  • The Manuals Treatise

    Several other mantras (the Dipini , the Sanjivini , the Nirvana , the pancha ratneshwari ) are given with bijas that differ from what the Paramananda Tantra , the Para Tantra , the Hamsa Maheshwara , and the Ka…

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