- Look up
avidya in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Avidyā may
refer to:
Avidyā (Buddhism), a
Buddhist concept which denotes ignorance of the four noble...
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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....
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Avidyā (Sanskrit: अविद्या; Pali: 𑀅𑀯𑀺𑀚𑁆𑀚𑀸, romanized: avijjā;
Tibetan phonetic: ma rigpa) in
Buddhist literature is
commonly translated as "ignorance"...
- 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...
- 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...
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questions the idea that
avidya is
unique to
individual selves,
arguing that if
individuality itself is a misconception, then
avidya must also inherently...
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eternal truths) and
Avidya (not Real Knowledge,
empirical truths). It ****erts that to he who
knows both
Vidya and
Avidya, the
Avidya empowers him to overcome...
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ignorance or
doubt Avidya (Hinduism), ignorance, a
concept in Vedanta.
Vidya is knowledge. Literally,
Avidya is not knowledge.
Avidyā (Buddhism), ignorance...
- suffering, and in
general unsatisfactory and painful,
perpetuated by
desire and
avidya (ignorance), and the
resulting karma and sensuousness.
Rebirths occur in...
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introdcued the
conmcept of anirvacaniyatva, the "inexpressibility of Maya-
Avidya as
existent or non-existent as
identical or
different from Brahman," a comon...
