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advaya (T. gnyis su med pa གཉིས་སུ་མེད་པ་; C. bu’er; J. funi; K. puri 不二).[1] Translated as "non-dual", "non-duality", "nonduality", "without duality", etc.[1][2]
The Princeton Dictionary states:
- Nonduality refers to the definitive awareness achieved through enlightenment, which transcends all of the conventional dichotomies into which compounded existence is divided (right and wrong, good and evil, etc.).[1]
For example, from a non-dual point of view:[3]
- good and evil (善惡) are without duality
- existence 有 and emptiness 空 are without duality
- delusion 迷 and enlightenment 悟 are without duality
The 84000 editors states:
- This is synonymous with reality, voidness, etc. But it must be remembered that nonduality does not necessarily mean unity, that unity is only one of the pair unity-duality; hence nonduality implies nonunity as well. This point is obscured by designating this nondual philosophy as “monism,” as too many modern scholars have done.[4]
Non-dualism is an important concept in the Mahayana. The topic is presented in Mahayana sutras such as the Vimalakirti Sutra, the Questions of Gaganagañja, and others.
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Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Robert E. Buswell Jr., Donald S. Lopez Jr., The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism (Princeton: 2014), s.v. advaya
- ↑
གཉིས་སུ་མེད་པ་, Christian-Steinert Dictionary
- ↑
不二, Digital Dictionary of Buddhism (to sign in, see DDB sign-in)
- ↑
The Holy Teaching of Vimalakīrti, note g.204, 84000 Collection
