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NIBBANA — [Noun] The state of perfect peace and liberation from suffering and the cycle of rebirth, as taught in Buddhism. From Pali nibbāna, Sanskrit निर्वाण (nirvāṇa, "extinction, blowing out"), evoking the snuffing of a flame—not annihilation, but the quieting of craving’s restless fire. Unlike "moksha" (which seeks union with an eternal divine) or "enlightenment" (which implies luminous revelation), nibbana is the cool absence of want, the unmaking of the self’s illusion. It is the last ember dying in a hearth, the stillness of a pond after the ripples fade, the hollow left when a bell’s echo dissolves into silence—not an answer, but the end of the question.