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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Buddhism |
 | | Nirvana means primarily a "blowing out", and hence the extinction of the fire of desire, ill-will, delusion, of all, in short, that binds the individual to rebirth and misery. |
 | | It was in the living Buddhist saint a state of calm repose, of indifference to life and death, to pleasure and pain, a state of imperturbable tranquility, where the sense of freedom from the bonds of rebirth caused the discomforts as well as the joys of life to sink into insignance. |
 | | Unchastity in all its forms, drunkenness, lying, stealing, envy, pride, harshness are fittingly condemned. |
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