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Buddhism: Self, Death and the Afterlife

Nirvana in This Life and After Death

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Overview

Recall questions on nirvana as experienced while embodied, on parinirvana, and on nirvana with and without remainder.

What you need to know

Answer each one before you reveal it.

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Key term

What characterises nirvana in this life, as experienced by someone who is still embodied?

Key term

What problem does the 80th dilemma of the Questions of King Milinda address?

Key term

What is the apophatic approach to describing nirvana?

Process

Distinguish parinirvana and nirvana with and without remainder.

Questions from this subtopic

Each one with the model answer underneath.

  1. 1

    What characterises nirvana in this life, as experienced by someone who is still embodied?

    Model answer

    The complete cessation of craving, aversion and ignorance while still living in a physical body.

  2. 2

    What is parinirvana?

    Model answer

    The final release from the cycle of rebirth that occurs when an enlightened being dies and is not reborn.

  3. 3

    What is the difference between nirvana with remainder and nirvana without remainder?

    Model answer

    Nirvana with remainder is the enlightened state while the physical body still persists; nirvana without remainder is the complete cessation that occurs after bodily death.

  4. 4

    Why is nirvana described as indescribable?

    Model answer

    Because it transcends all conceptual categories and the dualistic thinking that language depends upon.

  5. 5

    Why is nirvana considered beyond ordinary understanding?

    Model answer

    Because ordinary consciousness operates through the aggregates and conditioned experience, whereas nirvana is unconditioned.

  6. 6

    What problem does the 80th dilemma of the Questions of King Milinda address?

    Model answer

    The problem of describing nirvana when it cannot be directly perceived or compared to anything in ordinary experience.

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