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In Vedic literature, avidya refers to "ignorance, spiritual ignorance, illusion"; in early Buddhist texts, states Monier-Williams, it means "ignorance with non-existence". [10] The word is derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *weid-, meaning "to see" or "to know". It is a cognate with the Latin verb vidēre ("to see") and English wit.
Buddhist philosophy is the ancient Indian philosophical system that developed within ... anyone who is selfish does so out of ignorance of the true nature of personal ...
In the Buddhist teachings, the three poisons (of ignorance, attachment, and aversion) are the primary causes that keep sentient beings trapped in samsara.These three poisons are said to be the root of all of the other kleshas.
In Buddhism, ignorance (avidyā, or moha; i.e. a failure to grasp directly) of the three marks of existence is regarded as the first link in the overall process of saṃsāra whereby a being is subject to repeated existences in an endless cycle of dukkha.
In the contemporary Mahayana and Theravada Buddhist traditions, the three kleshas of ignorance, attachment, and aversion are identified as the root or source of all other kleshas. These are referred to as the three poisons in the Mahayana tradition, or as the three unwholesome roots in the Theravada tradition.
Some Buddhist philosophical views have been interpreted as having Idealistic tendencies, mainly the cittamatra (mind-only) philosophy of Yogacara Buddhism [11] as outlined in the works of Vasubandhu and Xuanzang. [12] Metaphysical Idealism has been the orthodox position of the Chinese Yogacara school or Fǎxiàng-zōng. [13]
The 7th-century Buddhist philosopher Chandrakīrti suggests three possible meanings of saṁvṛti: [1] complete covering or the "screen" of ignorance which hides truth; existence or origination through dependence, mutual conditioning; worldly behavior or speech behavior involving designation and designatum, cognition and cognitum.
The saṃsāra concept, in Buddhism, envisions that these six realms are interconnected, and everyone cycles life after life, and death is just a state for an afterlife, through these realms, because of a combination of ignorance, desires and purposeful karma, or ethical and unethical actions.