The Mind Like Fire Unbound

An Image in the Early Buddhist Discourses

Thanissaro Bhikkhu

Published • Revised 

Western Buddhists have traditionally understood the Buddha’s metaphor of nibbana (Sanskrit: nirvana) as “extinguishing” or “extinction”. This book, which includes an essay and readings from the Pali Canon, examines the ancient Indian understanding of the physical workings of fire in order to understand the Buddha’s metaphor of nibbana in its original context.

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