අනුපාදිශේෂ, a. (අන් උපාදි:), pert. to extinction or absence of the five elements (පංච ස්කන්ධ) of which beings consist and which bar the way to Nirvāna, unresidual, elementless, ස්කන්ධ ශේෂ නැති.

කර්‍ම ක්‍ෂය, n. extinction of Karma, viz. of merit or demerit.

චතුරාර්‍ය්‍ය·සත්‍ය, n. pl. the four higher or chief truths, viz, that existence involves suffering, the cause of suffering, Nirvāna or extinction of suffering, the way to the extinction of suffering.

ත්‍රි·භවය, n. the three different existences or conditions through which all must pass before attaining Nirvāna, viz. the Kāma, the Rūpa and the Arūpa states. The first is a state subject to passions, and includes both human and celestial beings or gods so-called; the second is a state in which the passions have been exterminated by asceticism and only a spiritual body remains, which state exists in the ten Brahma worlds; in the third or Arūpa state there remains only the pure invisible spirit. This state immediately precedes Nirvāna or the complete extinction which Buddhism teaches.

දුඃඛ·ක්‍ෂය, n. extinction of sorrow: ap. of Nirvāna, නිවන.

දුඃඛ·නිරෝධ·සත්‍යය, n. B., the truth or doctrine of the extinction of sorrow, which extinction takes place on the attainment of Nirvāna. See චතුරාර්‍ය්‍යසත්‍ය.

නිරවශේෂය, a. exhaustion, extinction, කම්මුතුව.

නිර්‍වාණය, n. the state so called, the cessation of all desire and of re-existence, extinction, annihilation, the goal of Buddhism.

වි·භව·තණ්හාව, n. (වි priv., භව existence), desire for non-existence, desire for total extinction at death.

සං·සර්‍ගාභාවය, n. (සංසර්‍ග union [of body and soul). අභාවය non-entity), non-transmigration or non-existence either in the past, the present or the future, viz, past non-existence, extinction of the present, and final annihilation or cessation of further existence.

සද්ධර්‍මාන්තර්‍ධානය, n. (·අන්ත:), extinction of the true doctrine, viz. of Buddhism, which Buddha predicted would be in the කලියුගය, the iron or evil age.

සර්‍ව·දුඃඛ ක්‍ෂය, n. (දුඃඛ sorrow, ක්‍ෂය destruction), extinction or cessation of all sorrow viz. Nirvàna, නිවන.