In Buddhism, nirodha, "cessation," "extinction," refers to the cessation or renouncing of craving and desire. It is the third of the Four Noble Truths...

Ayya Nirodha is an Australian Buddhist nun. Her story was featured in the Buddhist Life Stories of Australia Project (2014–2015). Ayya Nirodha was born...

jhānas and the stage of nirodha-samāpatti, a person is liberated. According to some traditions someone attaining the state of nirodha-samāpatti is an anagami...

craving for and attachment to this transient, unsatisfactory existence; nirodha (cessation, ending, confinement): the attachment to this transient world...

caused by taṇhā ("craving", "desire" or "attachment", literally "thirst") Nirodha (cessation, ending, confinement): dukkha can be ended or contained by the...

bring an end to saṃsāra and, as a result, to that dukkha (dukkha nirodha or nirodha sacca, as described in the third of the Four Noble Truths). Gautama...

any other object." Baba Hari Dass writes that if yoga is understood as nirodha (mental control), its goal is "the unqualified state of niruddha (the perfection...

Sanskrit, the words used for nirvikalpa-samadhi are samnja-vedayita-nirodha and nirodha-samāpatti". Conze 1962, p. 253. Conze 1962, p. 253, footnote ‡. Edgerton...

forth, for any number of up arrows. Four Noble Truths – Dukkha, Samudaya, Nirodha, Magga Four sights – observations which affected Prince Siddhartha deeply...

trance Nirodha-samapatti, which reduces heartbeat and other life functions to the bare minimum. Theravada Buddhist monks traditionally attain nirodha-samapatti...