  in buddhism, the term parinirvana (sanskrit: ; pali: ) is commonly used to refer to nirvana-after-death, which occurs upon the death of the body of someone who has attained nirvana during their lifetime. it implies a release from the , karma and rebirth as well as the dissolution of the skandhas. in some mahÄyÄna scriptures, notably the mahÄyÄna mahÄparinirvÄá¹a sÅ«tra, parinirvÄá¹a is described as the realm of the eternal true self of the buddha. ==nirvana after death==  in the buddhist view, when an ordinary person dies and their physical body disintegrates, the person's unresolved karma passes onto a new birth; and thus the karmic inheritance is reborn in one of the six realms of samsara. however, when a person attains nirvana, they are liberated from karmic rebirth. when such a person dies, their physical body disintegrates and this is the end of the cycle of rebirth. contemporary scholar rupert gethin explains: : eventually âthe remainder of lifeâ will be exhausted and, like all beings, such a person must die. but unlike other beings, who have not experienced ânirvÄá¹aâ, he or she will not be reborn into some new life, the physical and mental constituents of being will not come together in some new existence, there will be no new being or person. instead of being reborn, the person âparinirvÄá¹a-sâ, meaning in this context that the five aggregates of physical and mental phenomena that constitute a being cease to occur. this is the condition of ânirvÄá¹a without remainder [of life]â (nir-upadhiÅeá¹£a-nirvÄá¹a/an-up Ädisesa-nibbÄna): nirvÄá¹a that comes from ending the occurrence of the aggregates (skandha/khandha) of physical and mental phenomena that constitute a being; or, for short, khandha-parinibbÄna. modern buddhist usage tends to restrict ânirvÄá¹aâ to the awakening experience and reserve âparinirvÄá¹aâ for the death experience. ==parinirvana of buddha shakyamuni==  [[image: cambodian - the first sermon and buddha's parinibbana 
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