Lexicographical Neighbors of Nirvanas
Literary usage of Nirvanas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of the Päli Language by Robert Cæsar Childers (1875)
"Santam, " the Tranquil," belongs to both nirvanas ; land in its sense of "calm"
to Arhatship, in its sense of " cessation " to annihilation. ..."
2. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1900)
"... him has placed the golden age in the past; it has created mythic accounts of
Fountains of Youth, of Paradises in remote lands, of Utopias and nirvanas. ..."
3. Social Control: A Survey of the Foundations of Order by Edward Alsworth. Ross (1901)
"The ecstasies, visions, insights, and nirvanas for the sake of which the natural
man is to be crucified are hallucinations. To pursue them as supreme ..."
4. Genetic Theory of Reality: Being the Outcome of Genetic Logic as Issuing in by James Mark Baldwin (1915)
"The "infinitely infinite," the "unknowable," the nirvanas, are not positive
principles, but ontological postulates formed in advance to meet the exigencies ..."
5. Chosön; the Land of the Morning Calm: A Sketch of Korea by Percival Lowell (1886)
"When he loses that instinctive warning, he is on the high-road to the worst
possible of nirvanas, — an extinct mind in a living body. ..."
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