"Nirvana" is a word in ENGLISH
In the Buddhist system of religion, the final emancipation
of the soul from transmigration, and consequently a beatific
enfrachisement from the evils of wordly existence, as by annihilation
or absorption into the divine. See Buddhism.
The rain spun in the yellow arc lights over the café parking lot. It was empty inside, except for a fat Negro woman whom I could see through the service window in the kitchen, and a pretty, redheaded waitress in her early twenties, dressed in a pink uniform with her hair tied up on her freckled neck. She was obviously tired, but she was polite and smiled at me when she took my order, and I felt a sense of guilt, almost shame, at my susceptibility and easy fondness for a young woman's smile. Because if you're forty-nine and unmarried or a widower or if you've simply chosen to live alone, you're easily flattered by a young woman's seeming attention to you, and you forget that it is often simply a deference to your age.
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Following some duty overseas, the officers at the Fort were planning a welcome home party and dance for the unit. Being an all male combat force, they decided to request coeds from some of the surrounding colleges to attend. The Captain called Vassar and was assured by the Dean that arrangements could be made to send over a dozen of their most trustworthy students. The Captain hesitated, then said, "Would it also be possible to send a dozen or so of the other kind?"
The sacred books of the Buddhists in Burmah.
Read the complete definitionA Buddhist or Fohist priest, monk, or nun.
Read the complete definitionSame as Buddhist.
Read the complete definitionThe title of an incarnation of self-abnegation, virtue, and wisdom, or a deified religious teacher of the Buddhists, esp. Gautama …
Read the complete definitionThe religion based upon the doctrine originally taught by the Hindoo sage Gautama Siddartha, surnamed Buddha, \"the awakened or enlightened,\" …
Read the complete definitionOne who accepts the teachings of Buddhism.
Read the complete definitionOf or pertaining to Buddha, Buddhism, or the Buddhists.
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Read the complete definitionA dome-shaped structure built over relics of Buddha or some Buddhist saint.
Read the complete definitionA Buddhist priest. See Fo.
Read the complete definitionA thorny tree or shrub of the genus Lawsonia (L. alba). The fragrant white blossoms are used by the Buddhists …
Read the complete definitionA term by which Europeans designate religious temples and tower-like buildings of the Hindoos and Buddhists of India, Farther India, …
Read the complete definitionA dialect descended from Sanskrit, and like that, a dead language, except when used as the sacred language of the …
Read the complete definitionA sacred tree (Ficus religiosa) of the Buddhists, a kind of fig tree which attains great size and venerable age. …
Read the complete definitionA Buddhist priest of the higher orders in Burmah.
Read the complete definitionOne who officiates at the altar, or performs the rites of sacrifice; one who acts as a mediator between men …
Read the complete definitionA moundlike Buddhist sepulcher, or memorial monument, often erected over a Buddhist relic.
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