avidya

avidya
/euh vid"yah/, n. Hinduism, Buddhism.
ignorance of the identity of oneself with Brahman, resulting in imprisonment within the cycle of birth and death. Cf. vidya.
[ < Skt avidya ignorance, equiv. to a- A-6 + vidya; see VIDYA]

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      (Sanskrit), in the Buddhist chain of dependent origination, the ignorance that fetters man to transmigration. See pratītya-samutpāda.

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