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Śūnyatā ( / ʃuːnjəˈtɑː / shoon-yə-TAH; Sanskrit: शून्यता; Pali: suññatā ), translated most often as " emptiness ", [1] "vacuity", and sometimes "voidness", [2] or "nothingness" [3] is an Indian philosophical concept.
- Origin and Development of Śūnyatā
- Śunyata in Presecular Buddhism, in The Nikayas
- Śunyata in The Heart Sutra
- Śunyata in Nāgārjuna
- Śunyata in The Tathagatagarbha Sutras
- See Also
The theme of shunyata emerged from the Buddhist doctrines of Anatta (Pali, Sanskrit:Anātman—the nonexistence of the self, or Ātman) and Paticcasamuppada (Pali, Sanskrit: pratītyasamūtpāda, Interdependent Arising). The , part of the Pali Canon, relates that the monk Ananda, the attendant to Gautama Buddha asked, “It is said that the world is empty, ...
Sunnata. (Skt. Shunyata) “Emptiness” (sunnata) in Pali contexts is not the metaphysical Zero (Nonbeing as the principle of Being, Infinite Possibility as distinguished from Indefinite Actuality), but a characteristic of this world, as in S IV.295 96, where it has been explained that when the Almsman returns from a deathlike Contemplation in which c...
The Heart Sutra (one of the Mahayana Perfection of Wisdom Sutras) declares that the skandhas, which constitute our mental and physical existence, are empty in their nature or essence, i.e., empty of any such nature or essence. But it also declares that this emptiness is the same as form (which connotes fullness)–i.e., that this is an emptiness whic...
For Nāgārjuna, who provided the most important philosophical formulation of śūnyatā, emptiness as the mark of all phenomena means is a natural consequence of dependent origination; indeed, he identifies the two. In his analysis, any enduring essential nature (i.e., fullness) would prevent the process of dependent origination, would prevent any kind...
The class of Buddhist scriptures known as the Tathagatagarbha sutras presents a seemingly variant understanding of Emptiness, according to which the Buddha and Nirvana, unlike compounded, conditioned phenomena, are not empty of intrinsic existence, but merely empty of the impermanent, the painful and the Self-less. In the “Srimala Sutra” the Buddha...
sunyata, in Buddhist philosophy, the voidness that constitutes ultimate reality; sunyata is seen not as a negation of existence but rather as the undifferentiation out of which all apparent entities, distinctions, and dualities arise.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Śūnyatā, ( Sanskrit, also Shunyata; Pali: suññatā ), is a Buddhist term that is translated into English as emptiness, openness, thusness, etc. Śūnyatā refers to the absence of inherent existence in all phenomena, and it is complementary to the Buddhist concepts of no-self ( Pāli: Anatta, Sanskrit: Anātman) and Dependent origination .
Sunyata (Emptiness) is the profound meaning of the Mahayana Teaching. Two thousand five hundred years ago, the Buddha was able to realise "emptiness" (s. sunyata). By doing so he freed himself from unsatisfactoriness (s. dukkha). From the standpoint of enlightenment, sunyata is the reality of all worldly existences (s. dharma).
29. Mai 2015 · DOI: 10.1093/obo/9780195393521-0007. Introduction. Emptiness literally translates the Sanskrit śūnyatā. While variously interpreted, it always points to the absence of some ontological feature of substance or essence that living beings mistakenly superimpose upon phenomena.
śūnyatā (P. suññatā; T. stong pa nyid སྟོང་པ་ཉིད་; C. kong; J. ku 空) is translated as "emptiness," "openness," "voidness," etc. This term has multiple meanings: In the Sanskrit Mahayana tradition, śūnyatā refers to the absence of inherent existence in all phenomena, as presented in the Prajnaparamita sutras and related texts.
