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Vijjamaya, Vijjāmaya, Vijjā, Vijja-maya: 4 definitions

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Vijjamaya means something in Buddhism, Pali. If you want to know the exact meaning, history, etymology or English translation of this term then check out the descriptions on this page. Add your comment or reference to a book if you want to contribute to this summary article.

In Buddhism

Mahayana (major branch of Buddhism)

[«𱹾dzܲ Ա»] � Vijjamaya in Mahayana glossary
Source: Wisdom Library: Maha Prajnaparamita Sastra

Vijjā or Vijjā-iddhi refers to “magic of the scientific order, resulting from progress in the sciences.� and represents a type of Iddhi (magical process) which is related to the Sanskrit Ṛdⲹñ: one of the six “superknowledges� (ñ), according to the 2nd century Mahāprajñāpāramitāśāstra chapter XLIII.

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Mahayana (महायान, mahāyāna) is a major branch of Buddhism focusing on the path of a Bodhisattva (spiritual aspirants/ enlightened beings). Extant literature is vast and primarely composed in the Sanskrit language. There are many ūٰ of which some of the earliest are the various Prajñāpāramitā ūٰ.

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Languages of India and abroad

Pali-English dictionary

[«𱹾dzܲ Ա»] � Vijjamaya in Pali glossary
: Sutta: The Pali Text Society's Pali-English Dictionary

Vijjā refers to: (iddhi) (potency) accomplished by art or knowledge (Expos. I. 122) Vism. 383; see iddhi.

Note: is a Pali compound consisting of the words and .

: Sutta: Pali Word Grammar from Pali Myanmar Dictionary

maya (ဝိဇ္ဇာမ�) [(ti) (တ�)]�
[+maya.ka�372.rū�385.nīti,sutta�798.]
[ဝိဇ္ဇ�+မယ။ ကစ္စည်း။ ၃၇၂။ ရူ။ ၃၈၅။ နီတိ၊ သုတ္တ။ ၇၉၈။]

[Pali to Burmese]

: Sutta: Tipiṭaka Pāḷi-Myanmar Dictionary (တိပိဋက-ပါဠိမြန်မ� အဘိဓာန�)

maya�

(Burmese text): ဝိဇ္ဇ�-မန္တန�-အာထဗ္ဗနအတတ�-ဖြင့�-ပြီ�-ပြုအပ�-သော၊ ဝိဇ္ဇ�-မန္တန�-အာထဗ္ဗနအတတ�-ကြောင့်ဖြစ်သေ� (အာထဗ္ဗနကျမ်းလ� ဝိဇ္ဇာကြောင့� ဖြစ်သော။ ဝိသုဒ္ဓိ၊ သ�)�

(Auto-Translation): Through the power of the knowledge (wisdom), the skill of the discipline (art), that is accomplished by wisdom, due to the art of wisdom (as a result of the wisdom found in the scriptures).

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Pali is the language of the Tipiṭaka, which is the sacred canon of Theravāda Buddhism and contains much of the Buddha’s speech. Closeley related to Sanskrit, both languages are used interchangeably between religions.

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