Not exactly!
Nirvania is just a beatiful magical land in Dharmic religions, which is simply made up a massive ocean of golden souls(atmans/jivas) looking like candel flames. It is the true home,free of suffering and problems for the soul, where it lives peacfully in such great sleep it takes no notice of its surroundings!
Source; The journey of the soul by Radha Soami Satsangeet Beas
There isn't a place. Nirvana is a state of mind or understanding. It isn't a realm or heaven.
Heaven, Hell, Nirvana, Paradise, or Hades--
Buddhism offers peace, I can't say anything bad about that.
Nirvana is not like the Christian heaven, something that people feel is important in its own right. Nirvana is an absence of almost everything (Nirvana is "not"). There is no sense of self awareness (ego) or any of the other human emotions. It is important to people who are not in Nirvana as they are still in the cycle of death and rebirth and the associated suffering of desire and want.
Hellish pain, misery, and ignorance. Alienation. Withdrawal. No one term, such as "hell", can be the exact opposite, as "Buddhist heaven" is not an accurate description of nirvana.
Nirvana is the word used for describing the ultimate satisfaction. You might as well call it gaming paradise or gaming heaven. The specific term gaming nirvana was however chosen by I believe Nintendo for their next generation games.
Utopian? No no, there is such a word as "Paradisaic". Try that one.
It all depends on your interpretation of those words. If by Heaven you mean an afterlife, there isn't much similarity(outside of peace and bliss maybe). In some traditions they do mean the same thing and that is basically bliss or enlightenment in this life, in this world instead of living in hell in this life, in this world here and now.
Nirvana. In Sanskrit, according to Wikipedia, Nirvana is the state of being free from suffering and the cycle of rebirth. When one is in Nirvana one is with God forever, and, no doubt, happy.
its nirvana backwords, dough -.-''
Heaven is believed to be the place where good people go to get their reward after death. Other words for heaven are afterlife and paradise. Also, 'nirvana', ' a warm bath', 'retirement', 'the world to come', and 'grandchildren'.
Yes. In Buddhism, the equivalent to Heaven is a place/state called Nirvana. Buddhists believe that when you die, you keep reincarnating as another person or as an animal. You will reincarnate every time you die, unless in your current life you reached a state of enlightenment. Only then will death pass you on to Nirvana.