Word: nirvanas
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...abiding place in the Bosom of Abraham, or in Nirvana, or in the Paradise of Allah or among the Blessed Company of the Saints, what can he do but hate...
Human or Divine? In the 2,480-odd years since the Buddha attained Nirvana, there have been six World Buddhist Councils. Their story outlines the progress of the world's fifth largest faith. The first council took place soon after the Buddha's death in the 5th century B.C., when about 500 of the leading monks of the New Order met in a cave to decide on the first collection of their master's teachings: the universality of suffering and the Eightfold Path by which one might escape from it-right belief, right contemplation, right speech, right...
...gold-caparisoned elephants, trod solemnly toward the winter stream in a clamor of conch shells and cymbals. With ritual reverence, the first pilgrims rubbed the water into their skin and their eyes, then drank it. They believed from their scripture legends that they might thereby speed to Nirvana and be spared the pain of countless rebirths in man's universe...
...first time she snorts powdered heroin she vomits. Soon enough she is warming capsules of Horse in a spoon over a burner, mainlining the drug directly into a vein. Each dose sends her into a nerveless Nirvana: "Nothing itself in a uniform of gold, and Nothing loomed bigger than Anything ever could hope to be." To get the nothing her dreams are made of, Diane takes to shoplifting, finally sinks to old-fashioned prostitution. At novel's end. Author Mandel feebly suggests that psychoanalysis may save...
...person who became known as Buddha devoted his life to seeking a way out of the unending cycles of rebirth to which the Hindu and his universe, through Siva, were bound. Through asceticism and contemplation Buddha found his goal of complete and final extinction (nirvana). His perfect enlightenment (bodhi) in this matter was what caused him to smile, and all his images to smile. On 57th Street in Manhattan last week they still smiled...