The Buddhist Path to Enlightenment (study)
by Dr Kala Acharya | 2016 | 118,883 words
This page relates ‘Terms for Nibbana’ of the study on the Buddhist path to enlightenment. The Buddha was born in the Lumbini grove near the present-day border of India and Nepal in the 6th century B.C. He had achieved enlightenment at the age of thirty–five under the ‘Bodhi-tree’ at Buddha-Gaya. This study investigates the teachings after his Enlightenment which the Buddha decided to teach ‘out of compassion for beings’.
6.3. Terms for Nibbāna
Nibbāna is described with many significant terms in suttas of Saṃyutta Nikāya. They run as follows:[1]
Asaṅkhata (unconditioned)
Anata (absence of tendency of craving)
Anāsava (free from āsavas)
Sacca (ultimate truth)
Pāra (the other bank of saṃsāra Ocean)
Nipuna (subtle)
Sududdasa (a state that hard to see)
Ajajjara (absence of perish)
Nippapañca (absence of prolonging states)
Santa (a peaceful state)
Amata (a state of deathlessness)
Paṇīta (excellence)
Siva (bliss)
Khema (a state of free from danger)
Taṇhakkhaya (state of cessation desire)
Acchariya (an amazing state)
Abbhuta (a marvelous state)
Anitika (absence of pain)
Abyabajja (absence of disease)
Virāga (absence of attachment)
Suddhi (purity)
Mutti (liberation)
Anālaya (absence of sensual pleasure)
Dīpa (island–like an island in ocean)
Lena (asylum)
Tāna (protection)
Saraṇa (shelter)
Parāyana (termination).
Footnotes and references:
[1]:
SN II, p. 537-543