The History of Buddhist Thought c18.16

c18.16

The term nirvāṇa 4 was correctly explained by Colebrooke a century ago: “Both these sects (Buddhists and Jains) propose, for the grand object to which man should aspire, the attainment of a final happy state, from which there is no return. All concur in assigning to its attainment the same term, mukti, or moksha, with some shades of difference in the interpretation of the word: as emancipation, deliverance from evil; liberation from worldly bonds; relief from further transmigration, etc. . . .