The early Buddhist texts refer to the state of full awakening with terminology that carries evident experiential connotations. For example, the experience of Nirvana is described as an “experiential sphere” or “experiential base” (Pāli and Sanskrit: āyatana), deploying the same vocabulary that is used with reference to the six sense spheres. Similarly, the cessation (of conditioned experience) “is to be contacted with one’s own being,” featuring here technical vocabulary that also occurs with reference to ordinary...