When, in its last stage, Buddhism is driven to the assumption of an Adi, or primitive Buddha, as the creator of the universe, Nirvana, then meaning the absorption into him, ceases to have any real affinity with the original Buddhistic term" (Chambers). ...
"A text by definition presents a world, which cannot obviously be the world in which it exists as an artifact." (113) But what Collins means is this: that while this world, existing in the imaginaire, is in a sense a ou-topia, it also really exists in our world here-and-now in ...
Nirvana, in Indian religious thought, the supreme goal of certain meditation disciplines. Although it occurs in the literatures of a number of ancient Indian traditions, the Sanskrit term nirvana is most commonly associated with Buddhism, in which it is