n. complete cessation of suffering; a blissful state attained through realization of sunyata; enlightened experience.
n. state of paradise; heightened or great pleasure.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. In the Buddhist system of religion, the final emancipation of the soul from transmigration, and consequently a beatific enfrachisement from the evils of worldly existence, as by annihilation or absorption into the divine. See Buddhism.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. In Buddhism, the condition of a Buddha; the state to which the Buddhist saint is to aspire as the highest aim and highest good.
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n. (Hinduism and Buddhism) the beatitude that transcends the cycle of reincarnation; characterized by the extinction of desire and suffering and individual consciousness
n. any place of complete bliss and delight and peace
Word Usage
"What makes it worth it here, in what A Geography of Oysters author Rowan Jacobsen calls Washington's "oyster nirvana," is the belief that these waters, and these skilled farmers, have something singular to offer shellfish gourmets."