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of Nirvana is the main goal of reach Nirvana. Nirvana means
all three types. (Eltschinger, 2014) blowing out. There are some
ambiguous points about this
• Lists of Perfections meaning. For instance; what
The first theory with an is it that is blown out? If a
emphasis on ten perfections Buddhist says that it is man's
comes from the Pali tradition soul, you can say that it
and Theravada school as early cannot be the soul that is
Buddhism. The next one which blown out; Because
emphasizes six perfection comes Buddhism denies the
from the Mahayana school existence of the soul for
and refers to the Bodhisattva's man. (Huenemann, 2005)
form of practice. There are One should bear in mind
also ten stages in Mahayana that Nirvana takes two forms:
for perfection. The first one is during life,
It should be noted that, the and the second one is after
Theravada did not developed death.
a theory of stages; Rather To make sense of this, the
they only categorize them in first form of Nirvana means
three degrees: Basic, intermediate, the end of hatred, greed, and
and ultimate degree of delusion in this life, which
perfection. (Katz, 1985)
happened to the Buddha
• Nirvana himself at the age of 35. The
As it has been mentioned, the second form means that man
ultimate perfection in would not be reborn. (Keown,
Buddhist mysticism is to 2013: 51)
