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- English
- ignorance, misconceptions
- Sanskrit
- avidyā, ( Dev : अविद्या)
- Pali
- avijjā, ( Brah .: 𑀅𑀯𑀺𑀚𑁆𑀚𑀸 )
- Burmese
- အဝိဇ္ဇာ , ( MLCTS : əweɪʔzà )
- Chinese
- 無明 , ( Pinyin : wúmíng )
- Indonesian
- ketidaktahuan, kebodohan
- Japanese
- 無明 , (mumyō)
- Khmer
- អវិជ្ជា, អវិទ្យា , ( UNGEGN : âvĭchchéa , âvĭtyéa )
- Korean
- (Hangeul) 무명, (Hanja) 無明 , ( RR : mu myeong )
- Sinhala
- අවිද්යාව
- Tagalog
- avidya
- Tibetan
- མ་རིག་པ , ( Wylie : ma rig pa; , THL : ma rigpa )
- Thai
- อวิชชา, ( RTGS : awitcha )
- Vietnamese
- vô minh
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In Buddhism, the term Avidyā (Sanskrit: अविद्या; Pali: 𑀅𑀯𑀺𑀚𑁆𑀚𑀸, romanized: avijjā; Tibetan transliteration: ma rigpa) commonly translates as "unseeing" or "ignorance," and refers to one's ignorance or misconceptions about the nature of metaphysical reality - the impermanence and anatta doctrines in particular. It is the root cause of dukkha,("suffering, unsatisfactoriness"), and asserted as the first link, in Buddhist phenomenology, of a process that leads to repeated birth.
Avidyā is mentioned within the Buddhist teachings as ignorance or misunderstanding in various contexts:
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