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Nirvana

The cessation of craving and, with it, of dukkha and the cycle of rebirth, understood across Buddhist tradition as ultimate liberation. Described largely in negative terms (the extinguishing of craving's "fire") rather than as a positive metaphysical state with describable content.

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