nirvana (निर्वाण ; nirvāṇa)

(Language: Sanskrit)

Short Description: In Buddhism (and Hinduism), liberation; absorption in the Absolute

Long Description: In Buddhism (and Hinduism), ultimate liberation from samsara (the cycles of rebirths or the flow of cosmic manifestation), resulting in absorption in the Absolute; the extinction of the fires of passion and the resulting, supremely blissful state of liberation from attachment and egoism.

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