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Nirvana Day is an annual Buddhist festival. It is ... known as Parinirvana and is celebrated by some Buddhists on February 15th. Nirvana Day is one of many Buddhist festivals which also include Wesak and Uposatha days. Nirvana Day is the celebration of Buddha's death when he reached total Nirvana, at the age of 80.
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Two key notions, even in early Buddhism, are those of ana (Sanskrit: “no-self”; Palianatta) and Nirvana. The Buddha apparently wanted his famed doctrine of ana to be a phenomenological account of how things are rather than a theory. In his discourse to the wandering monk Vacchagotta, he rejected the theories of both eternalism (vatavsasah) and annihilationism (ucchedava).
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The Buddha agrees that though Nirvana should be the ultimate goal for all samsaric existences, the attainment of it is difficult to comprehend as it is beyond that outlined in any human experience. In Aggi-Vacchagotta Sutta he likens it to the cessation and extinguishing of a fire where the materials for sustenance has been removed:
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