< 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica
NIRVANA, the term in Buddhist theology, meaning literally “blowing out” or “dying out,” Skt. nirvā, “to blow,” for a calm or sinless state or condition of the mind reached by a dying out or extinction of sin (see Buddhism).
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