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There was some justi - fication for this view, since Buddhist texts often seem to give the term Nirvāna a negative connotation.
SIN AND SALVATION S. G. F. BRANDON 1968
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Similarly though Nirvana is regarded as primarily an ethical state, the Pali Canon contains the expression Nirvâṇadhâtu and the idea [173] that Nirvana is a sphere or realm (_âyatanam_) which transcends the transitory world and in which such antitheses are coming and going, birth and death, cease to exist.
Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 2 Charles Eliot 1896
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Buddhists -- the story, namely, of how the Buddha won, under the Bo Tree, the victory over ignorance, and attained to the Sambodhi, "the higher Wisdom," of Nirv [= a] na.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various
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Many have already followed it, and conquering the lust and pride and anger of their own hearts, have become free from ignorance and doubt and wrong belief, have entered the calm state of universal kindliness, and have reached Nirv [= a] na even in this life.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various
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There is a Middle Path discovered by the Tath [= a] gata [1] -- a path which opens the eyes, and bestows understanding, which leads to peace, to insight, to the higher wisdom, to Nirv [= a] na.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various
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Themselves giving up this world as hopeless, and looking for salvation in the next, they naturally thought the Buddhists must do the same, and in the absence of any authentic scriptures, to correct the mistake, they interpreted Nirv [= a] na, in terms of their own belief, as a state to be reached after death.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various
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Bamian, representing Sakya Buddha entering _Nirv [= a] na_, _i. e._ in act of death.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various
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Nirv [= a] na, to lie something of that altruism so conspicuous in the insistence on kindness and conversion of others.
The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow Edward Washburn Hopkins 1894
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On the other hand, in sections where the context shows that this must be the case, Nirv [= a] na is the equivalent of 'highest bliss' or 'highest _brahma_,' the same with the felicity thus named in older works.
The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow Edward Washburn Hopkins 1894
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Some people are born again; evil-doers go to hell; righteous people go to heaven; those who are free from all worldly desires attain Nirv [= a] na.
The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow Edward Washburn Hopkins 1894
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