Connecticut, US state

to enter nirvana (Buddhism)

Heinrich Heine (1797-1856), German lyric poet

(Buddhism) (loanword from Sanskrit) to achieve nirvana (extinction of desire and pain); to die (abbr. for 涅槃那[nie4 pan2 na4])

the Nyeva or Neva river (through St Petersburg)

opaque white

alumen; alunite (TCM)

variant of 涅槃[nie4 pan2]

alumen; alunite (TCM)

Ganesha (the elephant-headed God in Hinduism, son of Shiva and Parvati)

(Buddhism) the Nirvana Sutra

Nyeva or Neva River (through St Petersburg)

Aeneas, hero of Virgil's Aeneid

Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1818-1883), Russian novelist

Voronezh, city in the southwest of European Russia

(name) Polonius; Shakespearean character, father of Ophelia, accidentally killed by Hamlet

Rosneft (Russian state oil company)

Donetsk region of W. Ukraine

Donetsk, city in Ukraine

Leonid Brezhnev (1906-1982), Soviet statesman, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the USSR 1966-1982

Virgil's Aeneid (epic about the foundation of Rome)

(Buddhism) the Nirvana Sutra

(Buddhism) Mahāyāna Mahāparinirvāṇa Sūtra, aka the Nirvana Sutra, of which two major Chinese translations are extant, influential in the development of East Asian Buddhism

Fresnel lens

Oranjestad, capital of Aruba 阿魯巴|阿鲁巴[A1 lu3 ba1]