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Definition of Nirvana
1. Noun. (Hinduism and Buddhism) the beatitude that transcends the cycle of reincarnation; characterized by the extinction of desire and suffering and individual consciousness.
Category relationships: Hindooism, Hinduism, Buddhism
Generic synonyms: Beatification, Beatitude, Blessedness
2. Noun. Any place of complete bliss and delight and peace.
Generic synonyms: Part, Region
Derivative terms: Paradisal, Paradisiacal
Definition of Nirvana
1. n. In the Buddhist system of religion, the final emancipation of the soul from transmigration, and consequently a beatific enfrachisement from the evils of worldly existence, as by annihilation or absorption into the divine. See Buddhism.
Definition of Nirvana
1. Noun. (context: Buddhism) complete cessation of suffering; a blissful state attained through realization of sunyata; enlightened experience. ¹
2. Noun. (context: non-Buddhist colloquial usage) state of paradise; heightened or great pleasure. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Nirvana
1. a blessed state in Buddhism [n -S] : NIRVANIC [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nirvana
| niqab niqabs niqqud niramiai niramiais niridazole nirl nirled nirlie nirlier | nirliest nirling nirlit nirls nirly nirvana principle nirvanas nirvanic nis nisba | nisberry nisbite nisei niseis nisey nish nishes nishi nisi |
Literary usage of Nirvana
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1908)
"Three elements common to all post-Vedic about to die there were marvels, and the
course of nature was again disturbed, until the Tathagata passed to nirvana ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"They were inferior to Buddha, since he had already attained to nirvana. ...
nirvana alone was the true end of man, but who still lacked the courage to ..."
3. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1910)
"THE ATTAINMENT OF nirvana Translated from the Visuddhi-Magga (chap, xxiii.)
CQUISITION of honor etc.:—The blessings to be derived from the realization of ..."
4. The Monist by Hegeler Institute (1894)
"The proposition has been made that there are several kinds of nirvana, but
Professor Childers regards this theory as a complete failure ; he says : "An ..."
5. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"We are told, for instance, that nirvana is quietude and identity, whereas samsara
is turmoil and variety; that nirvana is freedom from all conditions of ..."
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