ENLIGHTENMENT

• (noun) education that results in understanding and the spread of knowledge

• (noun) a movement in Europe from about 1650 until 1800 that advocated the use of reason and individualism instead of tradition and established doctrine

  "the Enlightenment brought about many humanitarian reforms"

  synonyms : age of reason

• (noun) (Hinduism and Buddhism) the beatitude that transcends the cycle of reincarnation; characterized by the extinction of desire and suffering and individual consciousness

  synonyms : nirvana

  Buddha achieved nirvana through meditation. -added by naila_inlas

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