Enlightenment in Buddhism | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-15

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Enlightenment in Buddhism


00:01:36 1 Etymology
00:02:41 2 Translation
00:04:42 3 Related terms
00:04:52 3.1 Insight
00:05:00 3.1.1 Bodhi
00:07:07 3.1.2 Prajna
00:07:47 3.1.3 Kensho and satori
00:09:05 3.2 Knowledge
00:09:49 3.3 Freedom
00:10:41 3.4 Nirvana
00:11:09 4 Buddha's awakening
00:11:18 4.1 Buddhahood
00:12:29 4.2 The awakening of the Buddha
00:12:38 4.2.1 Canonical accounts
00:14:21 4.2.2 Critical assessment
00:16:14 5 Understanding of ibodhi/i and Buddhahood in Buddhism
00:16:33 5.1 Early Buddhism
00:16:55 5.2 Theravada
00:18:28 5.3 Mahayana
00:20:07 5.3.1 Buddha-nature
00:21:52 5.3.2 Harmonisation of the various terms and meanings
00:23:05 6 Western understanding of enlightenment
00:23:30 6.1 Enlightenment as "Aufklärung"
00:24:00 6.2 Awakening
00:24:50 6.3 Enlightenment and experience
00:27:09 7 Bodhi Day
00:27:50 8 See also



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SUMMARY
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The English term enlightenment is the western translation of the abstract noun bodhi, (; Sanskrit: बोधि; Pali: bodhi), the knowledge or wisdom, or awakened intellect, of a Buddha. The verbal root budh- means "to awaken," and its literal meaning is closer to "awakening." Although its most common usage is in the context of Buddhism, the term buddhi is also used in other Indian philosophies and traditions. The term "enlightenment" was popularised in the Western world through the 19th century translations of Max Müller. It has the western connotation of a sudden insight into a transcendental truth or reality.
The term is also being used to translate several other Buddhist terms and concepts, which are used to denote insight (prajna, kensho and satori); knowledge (vidhya); the "blowing out" (Nirvana) of disturbing emotions and desires and the subsequent freedom or release (vimutti); and the attainment of Buddhahood, as exemplified by Gautama Buddha.
What exactly constituted the Buddha's awakening is unknown. It may probably have involved the knowledge that liberation was attained by the combination of mindfulness and dhyāna, applied to the understanding of the arising and ceasing of craving. The relation between dhyana and insight is a core problem in the study of Buddhism, and is one of the fundamentals of Buddhist practice.
In the western world the concept of (spiritual) enlightenment has taken on a romantic meaning. It has become synonymous with self-realization and the true self and false self, being regarded as a substantial essence being covered over by social conditioning., , ,