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nirvana


  3  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Nirvana  \Nir*va"na\,  n.  [Skr.  nirv[=a][.n]a.] 
  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}. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  nirvana 
  n  1:  (Hinduism  and  Buddhism)  the  beatitude  that  transcends  the 
  cycle  of  reincarnation;  characterized  by  the  extinction 
  of  desire  and  individual  consciousness 
  2:  any  place  of  complete  bliss  and  delight  and  peace  [syn:  {eden}, 
  {paradise},  {heaven},  {promised  land},  {Shangri-la}] 
 
  From  THE  DEVIL'S  DICTIONARY  ((C)1911  Released  April  15  1993)  [devils]: 
 
  NIRVANA,  n.  In  the  Buddhist  religion,  a  state  of  pleasurable 
  annihilation  awarded  to  the  wise,  particularly  to  those  wise  enough  to 
  understand  it 
 
 




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