Editing Nirvana (section)

== Jainism ==
{{main| Moksha (Jainism)}}
[[File:Kalpasutra Mahavira Nirvana.jpg|thumb|right|250px|[[Kalpasutra (Jain)|Kalpasutra]] folio on ''Mahavira Nirvana''. Note the crescent shaped ''Siddhashila'', a place where all siddhas reside after nirvana.]]
The terms ''[[Moksa (Jainism)|moksa]]'' and ''nirvana'' are often used interchangeably in the [[Jain texts]].<ref>{{cite book | last =Jaini | first =Padmanabh | title =Collected Papers on Jaina Studies | publisher =Motilal Banarsidass Publ. | year =2000 | location =Delhi | isbn =81-208-1691-9 }}: ''"Moksa and Nirvana are synonymous in Jainism".'' p. 168</ref><ref>Michael Carrithers, Caroline Humphrey (1991) ''The Assembly of listeners: Jains in society'' Cambridge University Press. {{ISBN|0521365058}}: ''"Nirvana: A synonym for liberation, release, moksa."'' p. 297</ref>

[[File:Photo of lord adinath bhagwan at kundalpur.JPG|thumb|250px|[[Rishabhanatha]], believed to have lived millions of years ago, was the first ''[[Tirthankara]]'' to attain nirvana.]]

Uttaradhyana Sutra provides an account of Sudharman – also called Gautama, and one of the disciples of Mahavira – explaining the meaning of nirvana to Kesi, a disciple of [[Parshva]].<ref name="Jacobi 1895">{{cite book | last =Jacobi | first =Hermann | author2 =Ed. F. Max Müller | title =Uttaradhyayana Sutra, Jain Sutras Part II, Sacred Books of the East, Vol. 45 | publisher =The Clarendon Press | year =1895 | location =Oxford | url =http://www.sacred-texts.com/jai/sbe45/index.htm | access-date =19 December 2007 | archive-date =4 July 2009 | archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20090704214930/http://www.sacred-texts.com/jai/sbe45/index.htm | url-status =live }}</ref>{{Refn|group=note|The authenticity of this text is in doubt because Parshva, in Jain tradition, lived about 250 years before Mahavira, and his disciple Kesi would have been a few hundred years old when he met the disciple of Mahavira. See Jacobi (1895), footnotes.<ref name="Jacobi 1895">{{cite book | last =Jacobi | first =Hermann | author2 =Ed. F. Max Müller | title =Uttaradhyayana Sutra, Jain Sutras Part II, Sacred Books of the East, Vol. 45 | publisher =The Clarendon Press | year =1895 | location =Oxford | url =http://www.sacred-texts.com/jai/sbe45/index.htm | access-date =19 December 2007 | archive-date =4 July 2009 | archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20090704214930/http://www.sacred-texts.com/jai/sbe45/index.htm | url-status =live }}</ref>}}

{{Blockquote|There is a safe place in view of all, but difficult of approach, where there is no old age nor death, no pain nor disease. It is what is called nirvāṇa, or freedom from pain, or perfection, which is in view of all; it is the safe, happy, and quiet place which the great sages reach. That is the eternal place, in view of all, but difficult of approach. Those sages who reach it are free from sorrows, they have put an end to the stream of existence. (81–4) – Translated by Hermann Jacobi, 1895}}