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Regarding the nirvana reached by the Buddha, they held that his longevity (ayu), his body (rupa, sarira) and divine power (tejas) were infinite, unlimited and supramundane (lokuttara).
Feb 27, 2019 · Mahayana emphasizes the ideal of the bodhisattva, the enlightened being who vows to not enter nirvana until all beings are enlightened. This suggests enlightenment and nirvana are separate. However, Mahayana also teaches that nirvana is not separate from samsara, the wheel of birth and death.
- Relationship to The Cosmology of Transmigration
- What Does It Mean to Attain Nibbana?
- Rejecting Samsara
- Don’T Knock Nibbana ‘Til You’Ve Tried It?
- Nibbana as Freedom
- The Dualism Inherent in The Teaching of Nibbana
- Endnotes
I think it’s important to appreciate the teaching of nibbana in the context of the cosmology of transmigration, which predates and isn’t limited to Buddhism. This is a view which arose in India a century or two before the Buddha. It holds that, after death, each of us is reborn in another body. This process is called rebirth or reincarnation, and t...
In many modern interpretations of Buddhism, we tend to gloss over the full attainment of nibbana, and emphasize how each of us can taste some of the peace and release of it in our daily lives when we just let go of our craving or aversion – as if nibbana is, more or less, a state of mind. However, there’s nothing in the Pali Canon suggesting the or...
Although it is negative things such a greed, hate, delusion, and self-view that are “extinguished” in nibbana, there’s an undeniable aspect of the Buddhist goal of nibbana that rejects the world of samsara. In the Assu, or Tears, Sutta, the Buddhasays to his monks: The Buddhagoes on to remind the monks: Given the sad state of samsara, then, origina...
For a moment, set aside any thoughts you might be having about how you actually like life quite a bit, despite its downsides, and how blowing yourself out like a candle sounds pretty grim. There are subtleties to the concept of nibbanawe should explore with an open mind. First, there’s a problem with our analogy of nibbana being like a flame having...
The idea of nibbana being a state of freedom is reflected in an alternative interpretation of the “extinguishing a flame” metaphor inherent in the term. Thanissaro Bhikkhu explains, in an essay on nibbana, that the Indian understanding of fire at the time of the Buddhawas very different than ours. He says: Because of this interpretation of fire, Th...
Making nibbana your ultimate goal – whether in this lifetime, or understanding you’ll only achieve it after many lifetimes – is undeniably dualistic. Nibbana is better than samsara, the refined enjoyment of meditative states is better than sensual pleasure, renunciation of worldly affairs is better than staying involved in them, the wholehearted de...
[i] https://www.accesstoinsight.org/ptf/dhamma/sacca/sacca3/nibbana.html [ii] https://www.wisdomlib.org/definition/samsara [iii] “Maha-Saccaka Sutta: The Longer Discourse to Saccaka” (MN 36), translated from the Pali by Thanissaro Bhikkhu. Access to Insight (Legacy Edition), 30 November 2013, http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/mn/mn.036.than.h...
The Mahāyāna Mahāparinirvāṇa Sūtra ( Sanskrit; traditional Chinese: 大般涅槃經; pinyin: Dàbānnièpán-jīng; Japanese: Daihatsunehan-gyō, Tibetan: མྱ ངནལས་དསཀྱི མྡོ; Vietnamese: Kinh Đại Bát Niết Bàn) or Nirvana Sutra for short, is an influential Mahāyāna Buddhist scripture of the Buddha-nature class. [note 1] [1] The original title of the sutra was Mah...
Dec 23, 2018 · In the spiritual definition, nirvana (or nibbana in Pali) is an ancient Sanskrit word that means something like "to extinguish," with the connotation of extinguishing a flame. This more literal meaning has caused many westerners to assume that the goal of Buddhism is to obliterate oneself.
The Buddhist tradition distinguishes between the experience of someone who reaches nirvana during their lifetime ( sopadhiśeṣa-nirvāṇa) and the experience of nirvana after death ( nir-upadhiśeṣa-nirvāṇa ).
Buddhists believe that the Buddha's teachings will lead them to Nirvana and trust his teachings of the Four Noble Truths to take them to their goal. The Buddha has described Nirvana in different ways. He has called it supreme happiness, peace, immortality.
