Nibbana
Nibbana is the cessation of greed, hatred, and delusion, ending suffering and the cycle of rebirth. It is Buddhism’s goal of liberation.
Four Noble Truths: The Buddhist framework that identifies suffering, its origin, its cessation, and a path to cessation. Nibbana is the cessation named in the third truth.
Noble Eightfold Path: The Buddhist training in right view, intention, speech, action, livelihood, effort, mindfulness, and concentration. It is the path taught for reaching the cessation of suffering.
Saṃsāra: The cycle of birth, death, and rebirth sustained by ignorance and craving in Indian religions. Nibbana is liberation from the cycle that saṃsāra names.
Udāna: A collection of short Buddhist discourses in the Pali Canon, many accompanied by verses. Its opening passage describes the unconditioned, a major early image for Nibbana.
Dukkha: The unsatisfactoriness and suffering associated with conditioned existence in Buddhist thought. Nibbana is described as the end of dukkha.
Nirodha: Cessation, especially the ending of suffering through the ending of its causes in Buddhist teaching. Nibbana is identified with the cessation of craving and suffering.
Annihilationism: The view that a person or self is utterly destroyed at death. Nibbana is not classically presented as the destruction of a permanent self.
Itivuttaka: A short-text collection in the Pali Canon containing discourses attributed to the Buddha. It preserves concise teachings describing Nibbana and the ending of defilements.
Taṇhā: Craving or thirst that sustains suffering and continued existence in Buddhist accounts. Its cessation is central to the path culminating in Nibbana.
Vipassanā: A form of Buddhist meditation cultivating insight into experience and its characteristics. Insight practice is one way Buddhist traditions describe loosening ignorance and attachment.