The cessation of the "kleshas" and the attainment of nirvana ("nibbāna"), with which the cycle of rebirth ends, has been the primary and the soteriological goal of the Buddhist path for monastic life since the time of the Buddha. The term "path" is usually taken to mean the Noble Eightfold Path, but other versions of "the path" can also be found in the Nikayas. In some passages in the Pali Canon, a distinction is being made between right knowledge or insight ("sammā-ñāṇa"), and right liberation or release ("sammā-vimutti"), as the means to attain cessation and liberation.