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Translations of
acinteyya
Englishimponderable,
incomprehensible
Sanskritacintya
Paliacinteyya
Chinesebukesiyi
Japanesefukashigi
Koreanpulgasaūi
Sinhalaඅචින්ත්‍යය
Tibetanbsam gyis mi khyab pa
Thaiอจินไตย
VietnameseBất khả tư nghị
Glossary of Buddhism

In Buddhism, acinteyya (Pali), "imponderable" or "incomprehensible," avyākṛta (Sanskrit: अव्याकृत, Pali: avyākata, "unfathomable, unexpounded,"[1]), and atakkāvacara,[2] "beyond the sphere of reason,"[2] are unanswerable questions or undeclared questions. They are sets of questions that should not be thought about, and which the Buddha refused to answer, since this distracts from practice, and hinders the attainment of liberation. Various sets can be found within the Pali and Sanskrit texts, with four, and ten (Pali texts) or fourteen (Sanskrit texts) unanswerable questions.

  1. ^ "Sanskrit: avyakrta". vedabase.net. Archived from the original on 2012-08-27.
  2. ^ a b Sujato 2012, p. 291.

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