B EQUIV OF MAYA

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There isn’t a single one-to-one “Buddhist equivalent” of Māyā, but Buddhism expresses the same idea in a few key ways depending on context.

The closest direct term is still māyā (illusion) itself, which appears in Buddhist texts as a metaphor—for example, the Buddha compares phenomena to a magician’s illusion, a dream, or a mirage.

But the philosophical equivalent idea is usually expressed through:

• Avidyā (ignorance) — the fundamental misunderstanding of reality that makes things seem more real and permanent than they are

• Vipallāsa (distortions) — the mind wrongly perceiving impermanent things as permanent, painful as pleasant, etc.

• Śūnyatā (emptiness) in Mahāyāna Buddhism — the idea that things have no independent, fixed essence

• Saṅkhārā (conditioned phenomena) — things that arise due to causes and are therefore unstable and not ultimately solid

So in short:
Māyā in Buddhism is not replaced by a single concept, but is most closely aligned with ignorance (avidyā) and the insight that all conditioned things are illusory-like and empty of permanent essence.