Avyākṛta
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Avyākṛta (P. avyākata; T. lung du ma bstan pa/lung ma bstan ལུང་དུ་མ་བསྟན་པ་/ལུང་མ་བསྟན་; C. wuji) is translated as "indeterminate," "unascertainable," "unspecfied," etc.
Rangjung Yeshe wiki includes the following translations:
- 1) undetermined, undecided, indefinite, neutral, unspecified; (ethically/ morally/ karmically) neutral. 2) undecidedness, state of indifference, indistinct vagueness, neutral state, indifferent state, oblivious, ordinary state, vague oblivion, dull blank state of mind, amorphous states of mind. 3) ineffectual[1]
The term is used in the following contexts:
- Avyākṛtavastu - the unanswered questions[2]
- Avyākṛtadharma - indeterminant dharmas[3]
- "All actions naturally engaged in by a mind which is neither [concurrent with] the three poisons nor their three opposites, are called 'indeterminate'."[1]
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1
lung_ma_bstan, Rangjung Yeshe Wiki
- ↑ Robert E. Buswell Jr., Donald S. Lopez Jr., The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism (Princeton: 2014), s.v. avyākṛta
- ↑ Robert E. Buswell Jr., Donald S. Lopez Jr., The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism (Princeton: 2014), s.v. avyākṛtadharma
External links
ལུང་མ་བསྟན་, Christian-Steinert Dictionary