The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (94 page)

Ajari
.

Jap. tr. of
c
rya
, hence title of a Buddhist monk in general, or teacher in particular, especially among
Tendai
or
Shingon
Buddhists.

 
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(Skt., ‘the doctrine of non-origination’). According to the teaching of the early
Advaita
Ved
nta philosopher
Gau
ap
da
, the entire phenomenal world characterized by the objects of sense experience is unreal, a mere appearance like the visions experienced in a dream, and the Self is not separate from the objects of experience. There is only one changeless Reality (Consciousness,
vijñ
na
, or
Brahman
, or
tman
), and all causality is mere appearance.

 
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Aji-kan
(meditation on A)
:

see
A (1)
.

 
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