Difference between abiding nirvana and non-abiding nirvana?
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In Mahayana Buddhism, what is the difference between abiding nirvana and non-abiding nirvana?
Are there official Sanskrit terms for "abiding nirvana" and "non-abiding nirvana"? What are they?
When a Buddha has achieved non-abiding nirvana, "his enlightened activities are uninterrupted". What does this mean?
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> A Hinayana arhat abandoned afflictive obscurations by way of realizing
> emptiness, but has not abandoned knowledge obscuration. **He has achieved
> abiding nirvana**. Therefore, although they are free from the conception
> of true existence, and from true suffering, they are not free from the
> imprints of ignorance (i.e. knowledge obscurations). We say that it is
> like removing garlic from a container: the smell will still be there.
> So, because they still have the imprints of ignorance, (1) they are
> not free from the appearance of true existence, and (2) they are
> reborn with a mental body, due to the imprints of ignorance (in our
> case, we are reborn to due karma and afflictions).
>
> A bodhisattva is a person who generated effortless bodhicitta (the
> wish to achieve enlightenment for the sake of all sentient beings).
> Since effortless bodhicitta is the entry gate to the Mahayana path, he
> entered the Mahayana small path of accumulation. When he cultivates
> wisdom, it is conjoined with emptiness and that makes his mind vast
> (due to bodhicitta) and profound (due to realizing emptiness). **He
> wishes not to abide in individual liberation (abiding nirvana) but to
> be free from the extreme of peace (abiding nirvana) as well as from
> samsara. Therefore, he wishes to achieve non-abiding nirvana, which is
> the attainment of a buddha.**
>
> A Buddha abandoned both afflictive and knowledge obscuration, having
> generated the path perfection of wisdom (the wisdom of emptiness
> conjoined with bodhicitta). In his continuum, wisdom and bodhicitta
> are the same mind: the omniscient mind of a buddha that realizes all
> objects of knowledge directly, past present and future, in an
> unmistaken way, etc. **He achieved non-abiding nirvana, abiding neither
> in samsara nor in individual liberation. His enlightened activities
> are uninterrupted.**
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