Translations of Buddhist Terms to Pyrrhonist Terms

Many Buddhist terms have functional Pyrrhonist equivalents. The correspondence between the terms should be understood to mean that the terms have functional similarities, not necessarily identical meanings.

• Anatta = adiaphora - without fundamental essence that allows something to be differentiated logically.
• Advesha = aklineis - to be uninclined.
• Alobha = akradantous - to be indifferent.
• Attachment = belief, dogma, dogmatizing.
• Annica = aneprikita - unstable, unmeasurable.
• Conventional truth = the appearances and their conformance to our conventions of rationality
• Delusion = amathia, dogmatism, the state of believing in non-evident propositions.
• Emptiness = acatalepsia, that which is not intellectually graspable.
• Enlightenment = eudaimonia, the happy, fulfilled life.
• Form = the appearances, the phenomenological world we experience.
• Impermanence = aneprikita, that which is unstable and unmeasurable.
• Interpenetration = adiaphora, the state of being without fundamental essences that allows things to be cleanly logically differentiated, and consequently everything blends together.
• Kensho = aphasia, the state of non-assertion between epoche and ataraxia.
• Non-abiding awareness = non-dogmatic awareness.
• Not-self = adiaphora - without fundamental essence that allows things to be cleanly logically differentiated.
• Not knowing = aporia, puzzlement, being at an intellectual impasse.
• Nirvana = ataraxia, the state of being mentally unperturbed.
• Original mind = undisturbed mind, ataraxia.
• Sunyata = acatalepsia - not intellectually graspable.
• Ultimate truth = reality.
• Wu Wei = action without belief; acting in accordance with the appearances, free from dogmatic goals