In the Sutta Pitaka The Buddha describes Nirvāṇa as the perfect peace of mind possessed by one who is liberated (Pali: Arahant). It is to be distinguished from peaceful moods arising from a temporary absence of anger, sensual desire, anxiety and other afflicting states (Kleshas).

Aniconic carving representing the final nirvana of a Buddha at Sanchi. Nirvana (Sanskrit: निर्वाण; IAST: nirvāṇa; Pali: nibbāna) is the extinguishing of the passions, [1] the "blowing out" or "quenching" of the activity of the grasping mind and its related unease. [2] Nirvana is the goal of many Buddhist paths, and leads to ...

Nirvana (Skt. nirvāṇa; Tib. མྱ་ངན་ལས་འདས་པ་, nya ngen lé dé pa, Wyl. mya ngan las 'das pa) - literally ‘extinguished’ in Sanskrit and ‘beyond suffering’ in Tibetan; enlightenment itself. It is the state of peace that results from cessation, the total pacification of all suffering and its causes.

According to the Tibetan Gelug tradition, the Prasangika tenet system has its own unique way of defining the various nirvanas that are attainments. What a shravaka or pratyekabuddha arhat attains is still called “liberation” and what a Buddha attains, “non-abiding nirvana.”

Nirvāṇa is the highest goal, the ultimate objective of human aspiration and the summum bonum of rational life and was declared by the Lord Buddha in his clarion voice to the suffering denizens of the three worlds (traidhātuka) as the panacea to the ills and sufferings of existence, to which all sentient beings from the amoeba to the highest ...

1 天前 · English Translation of the Tibetan Mahaparinirvana Sutra by Stephen Hodge. In the very first years of the 21 st century, I commissioned and paid the world-class Buddhist translator, Stephen Hodge, to translate the Tibetan version of the Nirvana Sutra into English for me. This he kindly did, to my great satisfaction and delight. I present it here, with full and grateful acknowledgement to ...

Pure Land is one example within Buddhism, but Tibetan Buddhism, Zen and Nichiren are equally examples of the same occurrence.

In many Buddhist traditions, such as Vajrayana Buddhism, Theravada Buddhism, Tibetan Buddhism, Newar Buddhism, and so on, Nirvana is the highest goal but the it may also differ according to the realization of a Buddhist monk such as in Mahayana Buddhism, the highest aim is Buddhahood where one must not necessarily attained the Nirvana but one ...

The Buddha states in the “Mahayana Mahaparinirvana Sutra” (Tibetan version): “Nirvana is deathless .. Those who have passed into Nirvana are deathless. I say that anybody who is endowed with careful assiduity is not compounded and, even though they involve themselves in compounded things, they do not age, they do not die, they do not ...

Nirvana Sutra or Mahāparinirvāṇa Sūtra (Chinese: Niepan Jing (涅槃經); Japanese: Nehankyō (涅槃経)) is one of the major texts of Mahāyāna Buddhism. Note that this is one of two Buddhist texts having approximately the same title, the other being part of the Pali Canon.