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NISM AND BUDDHISM
Page 188. Impermanent, alas, are all compounded things. Their nature is to rise and fall. When they have risen they cease. The bringing of them to an end is Bliss (D. N. ii, 198).
Page 204. Nibbâna is the resort of release. Plunged in Nibbâna is the holy life lived, with Nibbâna for its goal, and ending in Nibbāna (S. N. v. 217–19).
Page 321. Foot-note. Nibbāna is a state beyond mind-consciousness.
Page 326. The delightful stretch of level ground is a name for Nibbāna (S. N. iii, 106).
Page 327, The destruction of craving is Nibbāna (S. N. iii, 188).
Page 328. Release means Nibbāna. Rooted in Nibbāna the holy life is lived. P. 331. Possessing naught and cleaving unto naught
That is the Isle, th' incomparable isle. That is the ending of decay and death. Nibbāna do I call it, Kappa, (said
The Exalted One), that is the Isle. (Sn. v. 1093). Dhammapada (Sacred Books of the East Vol. X translated by Max Muller 1881), page 55.
Chapter 15. “Health is the greatest of gifts, contentedness the best of riches, trust is the best of relationships, Nirvâna the highest happiness,"
Sutta Nipata translated by G. V. Fausbold 1881).
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