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[[Image:Ignorance.JPG|frame|An old blind man groping for his way with a cane, the image for ignorance in the [[Wheel of Life]]]] | [[Image:Ignorance.JPG|frame|An old blind man groping for his way with a cane, the image for ignorance in the [[Wheel of Life]]]] | ||
'''Three kinds of [[ignorance]]''' ([[Wyl.]] ''ma rig pa gsum'') | '''Three kinds of [[ignorance]]''' ([[Wyl.]] ''ma rig pa gsum'') are mentioned in the [[Dzogchen]] teachings: | ||
#Causal ignorance of single identity (''rgyu bdag nyid gcig pu'i ma rig pa'') | #Causal ignorance of single identity (''rgyu bdag nyid gcig pu'i ma rig pa'') | ||
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Three kinds of ignorance (Wyl. ma rig pa gsum) are mentioned in the Dzogchen teachings:
- Causal ignorance of single identity (rgyu bdag nyid gcig pu'i ma rig pa)
- Innate ignorance (lhan cig skyes pa'i ma rig pa)
- Imputational ignorance (kun tu brtags pa'i ma rig pa)
Alternative Translations
- 1. unenlightenment of the single self-cause, 2. innate unenlightenment, 3. unenlightenment of imaginings (Thondup)
- 1. ignorance of individual selfhood, 2. co-emergent ignorance, 3. ignorance of the imaginary (Dorje & Kapstein)
- 1. catalytic dimmed awareness of the single identity, 2. coemergent dimmed awareness, 3. dimmed awareness of rampant reification (Germano)
- 1. single-nature ignorance (Erik Pema Kunsang)
Further Reading
- Tulku Thondup, The Practice of Dzogchen (Ithaca: Snow Lion, 1996), pages 54-55.
- The Light of Wisdom Volume 1. Root text by Padmasambhava and commentary by Jamgön Kongtrül the Great. Published by Shambhala Publications ISBN 0-87773-566-2, page79