Aspects of Mahayana Buddhism and its Relation to Hinayana c13.115

c13.115

Nirālamba, 127 Nirālamba-bhaginī, 332 Nirmāṇakāya, 35, 56, 96f, 101f, 105f, 111, 113-7 Nirmitabuddhas, 102, 116, 117 Nirodha, 279; a thing in itself, 180-1 Nirvāṇa, 4, 19, 33, 47, 66, 68, 76, 86f, 129, 205, 226, 232; Buddhas have one, 174; comparison of the Hīnayāna and Mahāyāna conceptions of, 198-201; different uses of the term, 153; early Mahāyāna works on, 138-141; early Buddhist conception of, 166-9; ethical conception of, 167; four interpretations of, 145; Hīnayānic conception of, 92, 95, 129-169, 185, 201-3; metaphysical conception of, 168-9; Nāgārjuna defines, 186; Nikāyas differently interpret, 144-5; non-Yogācāra interpretation of, 195-6; positive conception of, 182, 183; psychical conception of, 167-8; saṃsāra contrasted to, 132, 187, 204; synonyms of, 203-4; threefold conception of, 166-9; two forms of, 186, 200; want of description of, 174. Nirvāṇa=abhāva, 172-175, 189 = acetasika, 162 = ākāśa, 165, 183 = amatapadam, 151f = bhāva, 189 = eternal death, 156, 161-4 = kṣaya, 173, 188 = liberation from duḥkhatā, 129-130 = negation of both bhāva and abhāva, 191 = neither bhāva nor abhāva, 190 = not annihilation, 141-4 = not aṇu, 174 = not nihilism, 150 = paramārthasatya, 219 = passage from Nimitta to Animitta, 130-2