enlightenment: Nonlinear Function
Created: March 23, 2022
Modified: March 23, 2023

enlightenment

This page is from my personal notes, and has not been specifically reviewed for public consumption. It might be incomplete, wrong, outdated, or stupid. Caveat lector.

David Chapman suggests that enlightenment in Buddhism is not a single defined thing, 'the word is hopelessly confused': https://vividness.live/epistemology-and-enlightenment

The English word 'enlightenment' can be a translation of the Pali noun bodhi, literally awakening, or of vimutti, literally liberation.

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