An Index of the Indescribable - The Vocabulary of Awakening in the Pāli Nikāyas | Ajahn Kovilo
Channel: Clear Mountain Monastery
Date: 2023-05-04

In this session, Ajahn Kovilo introduces and reads 155 names for/aspects of Nibbāna. Organized as follows:
0:00 Introduction
3:47 Six Aspects
5:12 How To Contemplate Nibbāna
7:29 (1) Nibbāna as Highest Peace
11:18 (2) Nibbāna as Highest Happiness
14:25 (3) Nibbāna as Highest Freedom
16:36 (4) Nibbāna as Highest Purity
21:32 (5) Nibbāna as Highest Truth
25:33 (6) Nibbāna as The Highest 
30:55 Questions

For a full list of the names of Nibbāna in English and Pāli, see this essay "Sutta Study: The Contemplation of Stilling and the Epithets for Nibbāna in the Pali Canon" by Bhikkhu Ñāṅatusita available here: https://www.bps.lk/olib/nl/nl056-u.html#c

See also: Chapter 6 of P.A. Payutto's Buddhadhamma: https://buddhadhamma.github.io/nibbana-supreme-peace.html

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