The Sanskrit term Ayoniśas can be transliterated into English as Ayonisas or Ayonishas, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

In Buddhism

Mahayana (major branch of Buddhism)

Source: academia.edu: A Study and Translation of the Gaganagañjaparipṛcchā

Ayoniśas (अयोनिशस्) refers to “superficial (mental activities)”, according to the Gaganagañjaparipṛcchā: the eighth chapter of the Mahāsaṃnipāta (a collection of Mahāyāna Buddhist Sūtras).—Accordingly, “Then the Bodhisattva Gaganagañja said this to the congregation of Bodhisattvas: ‘Sons of good family, may all of you elucidate the gates into the dharma of transcending the path of the works of Māra’ [...] The Bodhisattva Indrajālin said: ‘Since the deeds of the Māra arises from action [of speech], mental activity and movements [of body], the Bodhisattva should be free from the basis of action [of speech], mental activity and movements [of body], which are superficial mental activities (ayoniśas-manasikāra). With the thorough practice, the Bodhisattva who is free from action [of speech], mental activity and movements [of body] transcends the sphere of the Māra’”.

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Mahayana (महायान, mahāyāna) is a major branch of Buddhism focusing on the path of a Bodhisattva (spiritual aspirants/ enlightened beings). Extant literature is vast and primarely composed in the Sanskrit language. There are many sūtras of which some of the earliest are the various Prajñāpāramitā sūtras.

Buddhist philosophy

Source: Google Books: The Treasury of Knowledge: Book six, parts one and two (philosophy)

Ayoniśas (अयोनिशस्) or Ayoniśovikalpa refers to “inappropriate imaginations”, and represents a further explanation of the ten aspects of distracting false imagination (daśa-vikṣepa-vikalpa), according to Khewang Yeshe Gyatso, Exegetical Memorandum chapter 5 (Cf. Mahāyānasūtrālaṃkārakārikā, chapter 11). These [e.g., Ayoniśas] are related to the imaginary nature (parikalpita). These ten are enumerated as aspects of false imagination which may be imputed in all sorts of contexts, and it is on this basis that the process of reification actually comes to partake of the imaginary nature.

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Languages of India and abroad

Sanskrit dictionary

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary

Ayoniśas (अयोनिशस्).—(a-yoniśas) (neg. of yoniśas, and similarly used; = Pali ayoniso; for usage see yoniśas), not in a fundamen- tal or thoroughgoing way; superficially: (a) adv., Bodhisattvabhūmi 46.10 °śo vikalpya; (b) in composition, °śo-manasikāra Daśabhūmikasūtra 48.6 (prose); °manaskāra Divyāvadāna 445.2; Gaṇḍavyūha 495.7 (cited Śikṣāsamuccaya 6.4, where read ayoniśo-man°); Śikṣāsamuccaya 157.14; °śaś-citta (so Pali °so-citta) Suvarṇabhāsottamasūtra 61.12; Rāṣṭrapālaparipṛcchā 48.10 (here could only be a [compound]); °śo-vikalpena, by superficial (false) imagination, Laṅkāvatāra-sūtra 265.15.

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Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.

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Partial matches: Yonishas, A.

Starts with: Ayonishovikalpa.

Full-text: Yonishas.

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