concept

Avidyā

Beliefs & concepts

Ignorance as the root obscuration in Indic and Buddhist speech. Not doubt as hesitation, and not illusion as maya alone.

Also known as Avijja · Avidya

Buddhist traditions

  • Avidyā appears in Buddhist traditions.

    Watson’s Lotus Sūtra names ignorance among the obscurations that keep hearers in lesser vehicles and burning-house fear. Avidyā speech in that sūtra, not doubt as hesitation alone and not a general stupidity dump.

    from Burton Watson (translation) · The Lotus Sutra, 1993 (this translation); Sanskrit/Chinese recensions much older

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sources

  • The Lotus Sutra · Burton Watson (translation)

    Burton Watson, The Lotus Sutra.