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- Avidyā is a Sanskrit word whose literal meaning is ignorance, misconceptions, misunderstandings, incorrect knowledge, and it is the opposite of Vidya....
- Avidyā (Sanskrit: अविद्या; Pali: 𑀅𑀯𑀺𑀚𑁆𑀚𑀸, romanized: avijjā; Tibetan phonetic: ma rigpa) in Buddhist literature is commonly translated as "ignorance"...
- Look up avidya in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Avidyā may refer to: Avidyā (Buddhism), a Buddhist concept which denotes ignorance of the four noble...
- such as tat tvam asi, "that['s how] you are," which destroy the ignorance (avidyā) regarding one's true identity by revealing that (jiv)Ātman is non-different...
- questions the idea that avidya is unique to individual selves, arguing that if individuality itself is a misconception, then avidya must also inherently...
- truth-value of avidyā or what is the substratum that is the basis or cause of avidyā? The Upanishads teach that the knowledge of difference is avidyā or ignorance...
- introdcued the conmcept of anirvacaniyatva, the "inexpressibility of Maya-Avidya as existent or non-existent as identical or different from Brahman," a comon...
- In the Mahayana tradition moha is identified as a subcategory of avidya. Whereas avidya is defined as a fundamental ignorance, moha is defined as delusion...
- ignorance or doubt Avidya (Hinduism), ignorance, a concept in Vedanta. Vidya is knowledge. Literally, Avidya is not knowledge. Avidyā (Buddhism), ignorance...
- is clouded by avidya (ignorance), positing that avidya as a concept would not be able to explain its illusory nature on its own; if avidya were real, the...