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In Buddhism, what is the name given to the final goal of human endeavor?
 
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Could it be........Nirvana? (I'm just guessing)
 
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Good guess, Paul.

nirvana

\Nir*va"na\, n. [Skr. nirv[=a][.n]a.] In the Buddhist system of religion, the final emancipation of the soul from transmigration, and consequently a beatific enfrachisement from the evils of wordly existence, as by annihilation or absorption into the divine.
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