nirvana

     

Nibbāna

Trivia about nirvana

  • This influential band recorded the albums "Nevermind", "In Utero" & "Bleach"
  • Kurt Cobain & Krist Novoselic met through Buzz Osborne, leader of the Melvins, & found freedom as this group in 1987
  • This Seattle band played its final show March 1, 1994 in Munich; its lead singer would be dead the next month
  • This band's last U.S. concert was at Seattle's Center Arena on January 8, 1994
  • Memorialized on the 1994 Rolling Stone cover seen here, Kurt Cobain was the lead singer of this group
  • A Buddhist following the Eightfold Path will lose ignorance & craving, & reach this
  • When you've reached this Buddhist heaven, you've broken the cycle of rebirth
  • "Incesticide","In Utero","Nevermind"
  • To some, the music of this group, led by Kurt Cobain, was anything but blissful
  • "Nevermind" the fact this Seattle band hit the 10 million mark
  • This band scored the No. 2 riff with "Smells Like Teen Spirit"
  • Here we are now, entertain us with this term for a state of freedom from pain, worry & the external world
  • The death of lead singer Kurt Cobain put an end to this band in 1994
  • The ultimate goal in Buddhism is to attain this state of perfect blessedness
  • This term for the state of absolute blessedness in Buddhism is from the Sanskrit for "to blow out"
  • This band is seen on stage in "Drain You", from the 1996 compilation "From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah"
  • Smells like this Seattle group was Spin Magazine's Artist of the Year for 1992
  • This band's 1993 "In Utero" album vowed, "Frances Farmer will have her revenge on Seattle"
  • Buddhist freedom, perhaps for rock drummer Dave Grohl(7)
  • Kiyomizudera is said to have been built in honor of a bodhisattva, one who forgoes advancing to this enlightened state
  • When a Buddhist achieves this, no more reincarnations
  • Well, whatever--Nevermind has the look & sound of this grunge group
  • For a Buddhist, this blessed state ends the cycle of death & rebirth
  • Buddhist Bliss
  • Someone "managed to combine R.E.M. & Metallica", wrote Vernon Reid after he heard "Smells Like Teen Spirit" by this band, No. 27