An extinguished state of release (liberation) – either an acquired one, in which all samsaric sufferings and their causes have been removed forever or a naturally occurring one, in which all stains of impossible existence have always been removed. The Tibetan term means, literally, "a state beyond sorrow."
Tibetan: མྱ་ངན་འདས། mya-ngan-'das
Sanskrit: nirvāṇa
Pali: nibbāna
J. Hopkins: Nirvana; Liberation; Liberated
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