Philosophical questions that Buddha refused to answer
For the supreme god in Balinese Hinduism, see Acintya.
See also: Lists of unsolved problems
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Translations of acinteyya
English
imponderable, incomprehensible
Sanskrit
acintya
Pali
acinteyya
Chinese
bukesiyi
Japanese
fukashigi
Korean
pulgasaūi
Sinhala
අචින්ත්යය
Tibetan
bsam gyis mi khyab pa
Thai
อจินไตย
Vietnamese
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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.
^"Sanskrit: avyakrta". vedabase.net. Archived from the original on 2012-08-27.
^ abSujato 2012, p. 291.
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