The Mind Like Fire UnboundEarly Buddhism borrowed two of its central terms from the workings of fire. Upadana, or clinging, originally referred to the fuel that kept fire burning; nibbana, the name of the goal, to a fire's going out. This is the first book to examine these terms from the perspective of how the early Buddhists themselves viewed fire what they saw happening as a fire burned, and what happened to the fire when it went out to show what light this perspective