Tuesday, March 13, 2018

Nirvana


Nirvana is said to be the absence of the Three Poisons of greed, hatred, and ignorance.

Nirvana is said to be the absence of opinion over reality.

Thomas Cleary, the translator of the Avatamsaka Sutra, defines Nirvana as a "tranquil, dispassionate state of extinction of afflictions."



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