Advaya

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Key Term	advaya
In Tibetan Script	གཉིས་མེད་
Wylie Tibetan Transliteration	gnyis med
Devanagari Sanskrit Script	अद्वय
Romanized Sanskrit	advaya
Chinese Pinyin	bu’er
Japanese Transliteration	funi
Karl Brunnhölzl's English Term	nondual
Jeffrey Hopkin's English Term	non-duality; non-dualistic
Alternate Spellings	gnyis su med pa
Term Type	Adjective
Source Language	Sanskrit
Basic Meaning	nondual
Has the Sense of	ultimate truth
Definitions
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's English Term	inseparable, nondual, nonduality, indivisible, not two.

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

"Ultimate truth" or "absolute truth"; the reality of things as they truly are.

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

Mahāyāna, or the Great Vehicle, refers to the system of Buddhist thought and practice which developed around the beginning of Common Era, focusing on the pursuit of the state of full enlightenment of the Buddha through the realization of the wisdom of emptiness and the cultivation of compassion.