【英汉对照佛学词典】


(1) To be ruined, perish. Die out, disappear, fail. Become nonexistent (ks!aya, ks!i^na). (2) To stop, finish, end (ava^sana^, anta). (3) Exhaust. (4) The extinction, or destruction of suffering. Among the Four Noble Truths, the equivalent of 'cessation' mie 灭. Extinction. (nirodha). (5) To pause, rest (uparama) (休). (6) The conflagration of the universe and its return to nothingness.