Nirvana

[nɪə'vɑːnə] or [nɪr'vɑnə]

Definition

(noun.) (Hinduism and Buddhism) the beatitude that transcends the cycle of reincarnation; characterized by the extinction of desire and suffering and individual consciousness.

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Definition

(n.) In the Buddhist system of religion, the final emancipation of the soul from transmigration, and consequently a beatific enfrachisement from the evils of wordly existence, as by annihilation or absorption into the divine. See Buddhism.

Editor: Pierre

Definition

n. the cessation of individual existence—the state to which a Buddhist aspires as the best attainable.

Edited by Leopold