Note 145 — Chapter XIII · NOTES.
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When Nâgârjuna says in his Mâdhyamika Çâstra[145] that: “That is called Nirvâna which is not wanting, is not acquired, is not intermittent, is not non-intermittent, is not subject to destruction, and is not created;” he evidently speaks of Nirvâna as a synonym of Dharmakâya, that is, in its first sense as above described. Chandra Kîrti, therefore, rightly comments that Nirvâna is sarva-kalpanâ-kṣaya-rûpam,[146] i.e., that which transcends all the forms of determination. Nirvâna is an absolute, it is above the relativity of existence (bhâva) and non-existence (abhâva).[147]