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This article discusses how early Buddhist texts like the Ratnagotravibhaga and Jnanalokalankarasutra interpreted nirvana as "nonorigination" rather than extinction. It argues that these texts rejected the idea that nirvana involves destroying ignorance and passions or exhausting rebirths. Instead, they saw nirvana as beginningless and eternal, without any point of attainment or entrance. The article examines how this view of nirvana as nonorigination aimed to clarify notions in the tathagatagarbha literatur

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Dhira_

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