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| atman |
in Hinduism, the individual soul striving for enlightenment; breath of life. [1/2 definitions] |
| bliss |
religious ecstasy; perfect enlightenment. [1/2 definitions] |
| bo tree |
the sacred fig tree under which the Buddha is believed to have received enlightenment. |
| Buddha |
(sometimes l.c.) in Buddhism, a title conferred upon one who has attained a state of enlightenment or is the embodiment of virtue and divine wisdom. [1/2 definitions] |
| obscurantism |
active opposition to intellectual enlightenment, esp. by withholding knowledge from the public. [1/2 definitions] |
| philosophe |
any of the leading philosophical, political, and social writers of the eighteenth-century French Enlightenment. |
| satori |
in Zen Buddhism, spiritual enlightenment. |
| Zen |
a type of Buddhism, now practiced in Japan, Korea, and Vietnam, that emphasizes individual spiritual enlightenment through meditation. [1/2 definitions] |
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