Buddhism and the Concept of Nirvāṇa
… impossible to define or describe’.
Mircea Eliade, *Yoga: Immortality and Freedom*, N.Y: Panthean Books, 1958, p. 165.
**44** I. B. Horner, “Early Buddhist Dhamma,” Artibus Asiae 11, no. 1 (1948), p. …
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