| Part of a series on |
| Buddhism |
|---|
 |
| 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 | Bất 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.
- ^ "Sanskrit: avyakrta". vedabase.net. Archived from the original on 2012-08-27.
- ^ a b Sujato 2012, p. 291.