Talk:Parinirvana

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Note: in April, 2006, this article was merged with mahaparinirvana. Please see the complete edit history of that article here. In summary, it was written almost entirely by User:TonyMPNS, with only peripheral changes by other editors. In addition, wrote the merged version of the article, originally placing it on Talk:Mahaparinirvana. - Nat Krause^(Talk!) 00:47, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Nice work

Theres only so much I can do because I'm not prescicely clear on the differences between Parinirvana and Nirvana. Can you say a bit more on that if you can? I'll do a bit of checking myself. Cheers, Sam Spade 05:03, 29 Mar 2004 (UTC)

As far as I know, Parinibbana refers to the Parinibbana of a Buddha or an Arahant, while Mahaparinibbana (the great Parinibbana) refers to the Parinibbana of a Buddha only, specifically the Parinibbana of the last Buddha; Gautama Buddha. This would be from the percpective of original or Theravada Buddhism, maybe in the Mahayana tradition they changed the original meaning as they did with the concepts of Buddha and Bodhisatta.86.136.80.61