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unawareness

TECHNICAL TERM DETAILS (English)

Term unawareness

Referenced by:
ignorance (alternative term)
Tibetan ma-rig-pa
Sanskrit avidya
Pali
Definition Either simply not knowing or knowing in an inverted, incorrect manner either (1) behavioral cause and effect, or (2) voidness (emptiness), the total absence of impossible ways of existing. Translators often render the term as "ignorance."

TRANSLATION (French)

Translation inconnaissance

* ignorance
Definition (1) Selon Vasubandhu et Asanga, ne pas savoir, ne pas connaitre. (2) Selon Dharmakirti, connaitre d'une manière inversée (incorrecte). Dans les deux cas, l'inconnaissance porte soit sur les causes et les effets comportementaux, soit sur l'absence d''une "âme" impossible ou vacuité. Souvent traduit par "ignorance".

OTHER TRANSLATIONS

Arabic عدم الوعي
German Unwissenheit
French inconnaissance
Italian inconsapevolezza
Jeffrey Hopkins En, Ti... [not-know]; ignorance
Russian неосознавание
Vietnamese vô minh