大般涅槃

(大般涅槃, 大般涅盘)

mahāparinirvāṇa, explained by [lang id =1028]大入滅息 the great, or final entrance into extinction and cessation; or [lang id =1028]大圓寂入 great entrance into perfect rest; [lang id =1028]大滅度 great extinction and passing over (from mortality). It is interpreted in Mahāyāna as meaning the cessation or extinction of passion and delusion, of mortality, and of all activities, and deliverance into a state beyond these concepts. In Mahāyāna it is not understood as the annihilation, or cessation of existence; the reappearance of Dīpaṃkara [lang id =1028]然燈 (who had long entered nirvāṇa) along with Śākyamuni on the Vulture Peak supports this view. It is a state above all terms of human expression. See the <Lotus Sutra> and the <Nirvāṇa sūtra>.

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梵語摩訶般涅槃那， 譯義摩訶為大， 是讚美寂靜之德， 般為入， 是歸趣之義， 涅槃為滅， 是滅煩惱及身心之義， 那為息， 是安息之義， 合之為大入滅息， 簡稱為大般涅槃， 是指佛度世已畢， 歸於圓寂的意思。