vipallasa

Pali for "hallucination, delusion, erroneous observation, fallacy"

According to Buddhism (especially Theravada), there are three kinds of vipallasa:

• Sanna-vipallasa: delusion of perception;
• Citta-vipallasa: delusion of thought;
• Ditthi-vipallasa: delusion of views.

Further, each of the three types of vipalassa can be subdivided to four types of (erroneous) perception, namely that of

• impermanence as permanence;
• impurity as purity;
• ill as good;
• no-soul as soul.