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Rreferences:
Digha Nikaya #33: Sangiti Sutta 3s#20 PTS: pp288; and The Compilation 3s#20, MO, trans.
WP, The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha, #9: Right View, Bhikkhu Nanamoli and Bhikkhu Bodhi, trans, pp134
PTS, T.W and C.A.F. Rhys Davids, trans., Dialogs of the Buddha III #33 pp 209
WP, Walshe, trans, The Long Discourses of the Buddha, #33, pp484
Digha Nikaya #33, pp288
PTS, T.W and C.A.F. Rhys Davids, trans., Dialogs of the Buddha III #33 pp 209
WP, Walshe, trans, The Long Discourses of the Buddha, #33, pp484
Puremind, M. Punnaji, Awakening Meditation, pp8-56
All The Asavas Outline of Majjhima I:#2: Sabbasavasutta
AIT: All the Fermentations, MN I:2, Thanissaro, trans.
WP: The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha, Translated by Bhikkhu Nanamoli and Bhikkhu Bodhi, All the Taints, pp 91
PTS: The Collection of The Middle Length Sayings, Translated by I.B. Horner, Discourse on All the Cankers, pp8
PTS: The Book of the Gradual Sayings, III, v (75): The Warrior, Hare, trans., pp76
PTS: The Book of the Kindred Sayings, V, The Great Chapter, Kindred Sayings on the Way, iii: Asava, Woodward, trans., pp45
The 10th Lesson: The Destruction of the Asavas
| Pali | MO | Hare | Horner | Punnaji | Bodhi | Nanamoli | Rhys Davids | (Mrs)Rhys Davids | Thanissaro | Walshe | Woodward |
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| avijj¤ | blindness | ignorance | ignorance | unconsciousness | ignorance | ignorance | ignorance | ignorance | ignorance | ignorance | nescience |
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Avijj¤: [Sk. avidyaa; fr. a + vid] ignorance; the main root of evil and of contual rebirth . . . for further information see vijj¤; avijj¤ is considered an anusaya, it is one of the ¤sav¤, one of the ogh¤, one of the n¨varaĽ¤ni, and one of the sa¸yojan¤ni. |
In this system avijja always refers to not seeing The Four Truths or Paticca Samupp¤da.
A = not; vijja = vision. Here it is better to use "blindness" than "ignorance" because it can be that one is ignorant, comes across the Four Truths, is no longer ignorant but knows nothing of, or does not see, or is blind to the meaning -- and this is the meaning of avijja. One who was blind to the meaning and who sees, is no longer either blind nor ignorant.
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