The Buddhist Path to Enlightenment (study)

by Dr Kala Acharya | 2016 | 118,883 words

This page relates ‘Four Aspects of 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’.

The Nibbāna is so subtle and is difficult to see. By attainment of the Path and Fruition (magga and phala) nibbāna can be seen. But to know what the nibbāna is, we should study about the nibbāna through the four ways. They are characteristic, function, manifestation and proximate cause.

It is said in Visuddhimagga thus:

Nibbāna has peace as its characteristic.
Its function is not to did; or its function is to comfort.
It is manifested as the signless;
Or it is manifested as not-diversification”.
(But nibbāna has not a proximate cause).[1]

Footnotes and references:

[1]:

Vsm, p. 139

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