Two kinds of ignorance
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Two kinds of ignorance (Tib. མ་རིག་པ་གཉིས་, Wyl. ma rig pa gnyis)
- Coemergent ignorance (Tib. ལྷན་སྐྱེས་ཀྱི་མ་རིག་པ་, lhenchik kyepé marigpa) (Rigpa Translations)
- Imputational ignorance (Tib. ཀུན་བརྟགས་ཀྱི་མ་རིག་པ་, küntu takpé marigpa)
Alternative Translations
- innate ignorance (alt. Rigpa Translations), connate ignorance (Dzogchen Ponlop), co-emergent ignorance, co-emergent unawareness (Kapstein)
- ignorance of false imagination (Dzogchen Ponlop), ignorance of labeling, ignorance of imputation, imputative unawareness (Kapstein)