Buddhism and the Concept of Nirvāṇa
… to this profane world and being reborn into a transhuman life impossible to define or describe’.
Mircea Eliade, *Yoga: Immortality and Freedom*, N.Y: Panthean Books, 1958, p. 165.
**44** I. B. Horner, “Early …
Eliade suggests that for the Buddha, salvation comes through attaining nirvāṇa, transcending the mundane aspects of human life and entering an unconditioned state. This transformation entails a metaph
