0 a state of freedom from all suffering that Buddhists believe can be achieved by removing all personal wishes
There will be a new nirvana.
We have not really considered whether and how we can reassert representative democracy, so it is not a case of paradise gained or even of nirvana deferred.
Their lifestyle is shaped to support their spiritual practice: to live a simple and meditative life and attain nirvana.
In this sense therefore, they are no closer to nirvana than humans and no wiser in the ultimate sense.
He teaches that nirvana is achieved through gaining the power, longevity and knowledge of the state between life and death.
Faith is the first step for the bodhisattva to tread along that path to nirvana.
Deprived of fuel, the fire goes out, and this is nirvana.
Also, according to him, only the compounded and conditioned is non-self - not nirvana.
