Nibbāna; Nirvana:

‘The state of the Buddha, the perfectly Enlightened One, is nirvana (Pali: Nibbāna) – an attainment from which one does not return. It is *beyond death*, not caused, not born, not produced; it is beyond all becoming and devoid of all that makes up a human person. There are two kinds of nirvana. One is achieved by the Buddha while still alive, but he remains alive only until the last and most tenuous remains of karma have been expended. When these disappear, the Buddha dies and then enters the nirvana that is not burdened by any karmic residue at all’. [emphasis added]. (©1994-2002 Encyclopaedia Britannica).

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Parinibbana:

[Mr. Ba Khin]: ‘On the termination of their lives the perfected saints, i.e. the Buddhas and arahants, pass into parinibbāna, reaching the end of suffering’ [dukkha].

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