Enlightenment
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
enlightenment/ɪnˈlʌɪtnmənt/
▶noun
- 1 the action of enlightening or the state of being enlightened.
■ the attainment of spiritual insight, in particular (in Buddhism) that awareness which frees a person from the cycle of rebirth.
- 2 (the Enlightenment) a European intellectual movement of the late 17th and 18th centuries emphasizing reason and individualism rather than tradition.
'Enlightenment' also found in these Oxford entries:
age of reason
- bo tree
- Buddhism
- enlightenment
- illuminati
- illumination
- koan
- light
- prajna
- satori
- siddha
- siddhi
- Vesak
