不生不灭

(不生不滅, 不生不灭)

v. [lang id =1028]不滅 'Neither (to be) born nor ended' is another term for [lang id =1028]常住 permanent, eternal; nothing having been created nothing can be destroyed; Hīnayāna limits the meaning to the state of nirvana, no more births and deaths; Mahāyāna in its Mādhyamika form extends it universally, no birth and death, no creation and annihilation, see [lang id =1028]中論.