What is the difference between nirvana and paradise?
nirvana | paradise |
(Buddhism) complete cessation of suffering; a blissful state attained through realization of sunyata; enlightened experience.
(non-Buddhist colloquial usage) state of paradise; heightened or great pleasure.
(chiefly, religion) Heaven; the abode of sanctified souls after death.
* Bible, Luke xxiii. 43
* Longfellow
(figuratively) A very pleasant place.
(figuratively) A very positive experience.
(architecture) An open space within a monastery or adjoining a church, such as the space within a cloister, the open court before a basilica, etc.
A churchyard or cemetery.
To affect or exalt with visions of felicity; to entrance; to bewitch.
As nouns the difference between nirvana and paradise
is that nirvana is complete cessation of suffering; a blissful state attained through realization of sunyata; enlightened experience while paradise is heaven; the abode of sanctified souls after death.As a verb paradise is
to affect or exalt with visions of felicity; to entrance; to bewitch.As a proper noun Paradise is
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(en noun)- To-day shalt thou be with me in paradise .
- It sounds to him like her mother's voice, / Singing in Paradise .
- an island paradise in the Caribbean
Synonyms
* haven * heaven * utopiaDerived terms
* bird of paradise * fool's paradise * grains of paradise * paradise duck * paradise flycatcher * paradisiac * paradisiacal * paradisiacally * Surfers Paradise * trouble in paradiseSee also
* Arcadia * Avalon * Nirvana * Shangri-laVerb
(paradis)- (Marston)