noun. Ignorance; specifically, in Buddha's metaphysical system, the ignorance which mistakes the illusory phenomena of this world for realities. It is the first of the 12 nidānas, or links in the closed chain of cause and effect, in the whole range of sentient existence.

""avidya" or ignorance on the part of the soul of its own real nature and being, whereby it fails to recognize that this material life is "maya" or illusion."

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