| 涅盘 | niè pán | (Buddhism) nirvana |  |
| 醍醐 | tí hú | refined cream cheese / fig. crème de la crème / nirvana / Buddha nature / Buddhist truth / broth / flawless personal character | |
| 寂灭 | jì miè | to die out / to fade away / nirvana (Buddhism) | |
| 灭度 | miè dù | to extinguish worries and the sea of grief / nirvana (Buddhism) | |
| 梵天 | Fàn tiān | Nirvana (in Buddhist scripture) / Lord Brahma (the Hindu Creator) | |
| 阿罗汉 | ā luó hàn | arhat (Sanskrit) / a holy man who has left behind all earthly desires and concerns and attained nirvana (Buddhism) | |
| 盲人摸象 | máng rén mō xiàng | blind people touch an elephant (idiom, from Nirvana sutra 大般涅槃經|大般涅盘经[da4 ban1 Nie4 pan2 jing1]) / fig. unable to see the big picture / to mistake the part for the whole / unable to see the wood for the trees |  |
| 大彻大悟 | dà chè dà wù | to achieve supreme enlightenment or nirvana (Buddhism) | |
| 众盲摸象 | zhòng máng mō xiàng | multitude of blind people touch an elephant (idiom, from Nirvana sutra 大般涅槃經|大般涅盘经[da4 ban1 Nie4 pan2 jing1]) / fig. unable to see the big picture / to mistake the part for the whole / unable to see the wood for the trees | |
| 涅槃 | niè pán | (Buddhism) to achieve nirvana (extinction of desire and pain) / to die (loanword from Sanskrit, abbr. for 涅槃那[nie4pan2na4]) | |
| 入涅 | rù niè | to enter nirvana (Buddhism) | |
| 大本涅盘经 | dà běn Niè pán jīng | the great Nirvana sutra: every living thing has Buddha nature. | |
| 大般涅盘经 | dà bān Niè pán jīng | Nirvana sutra | |
| 涅盘经 | Niè pán Jīng | the Nirvana sutra: every living thing has Buddha nature. | |
| 瞎子摸象 | xiā zi mō xiàng | blind people touch an elephant (idiom, from Nirvana sutra 大般涅槃經|大般涅盘经[da4 ban1 Nie4 pan2 jing1]) / fig. unable to see the big picture / to mistake the part for the whole / unable to see the wood for the trees | |
| 大本涅槃经 | Dà běn Niè pán Jīng | (Buddhism) the Nirvana Sutra | |
| 大般涅槃经 | Dà Bān niè pán Jīng | (Buddhism) Mahāyāna Mahāparinirvāṇa Sūtra, aka the Nirvana Sutra, of which two major Chinese translations are extant, influential in the development of East Asian Buddhism | |
| 涅槃经 | Niè pán Jīng | (Buddhism) the Nirvana Sutra | |
