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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"...
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Avidyā may
refer to:
Avidyā (Buddhism), a
Buddhist concept which denotes ignorance of the four
noble truths or
misunderstanding of the
nature of reality...
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statements such as tat tvam asi, "that['s how] you are,"
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...
- 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...
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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...
- 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...
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Mahayana tradition, moha is
considered to be a
subcategory of
avidyā.
Whereas avidyā is
defined as a
fundamental ignorance, moha is
defined as an ignorance...
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deals with the
transition from
avidya to vidya, that is, from the
imagined life to the life of true perception. Maya is
avidya.
Vidya is tattvavidya, the...