Key Terms/advaya

From Buddha-Nature


अद्वय advaya
nonduality
གཉིས་མེད་
gnyis med
不二
bu’er,\ bù èr
Sanskrit - Adjective
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Basic Meaning

Literally, "without duality," it refers to that which is indivisible, in that it is not divided into two.

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Has the sense of

Often used to reference the ultimate truth, which is beyond dualistic conceptions such as subject and object and so forth.

In other languages
Tibetan
གཉིས་མེད་
gnyis med
Sanskrit
अद्वय
advaya
Chinese
不二
bu’er, bù èr
Japanese
funi
How translators render it
nondualityBuddha-nature Standard, Richard Barron
nondualKarl Brunnhölzl, Richard Barron
non-dualityJeffrey Hopkins
non-dualisticJeffrey Hopkins
In the dictionaries
Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism

See page 20 - 21: In Sanskrit, “nonduality”; one of the common synonyms for the highest teachings of Buddhism and one of the foundational principles of the Mahāyāna presentation of doctrine. 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.). Most specifically, nondual knowledge (advayajñāna) transcends the subject-object bifurcation that governs all conventional States of consciousness and engenders a distinctive type of awareness that no longer requires an object of consciousness.

Rangjung Yeshe Dictionary

inseparable, nondual, nonduality, indivisible, not two.

Term type
Adjective
Source language
Sanskrit
Topic
advaya
Alternate spellings
gnyis su med pa