Śūnyatā
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Key Term | śūnyatā |
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Topic Variation | emptiness |
Hover Popup Choices | emptiness; śūnyatā; sunyata; tong pa nyi |
In Tibetan Script | སྟོང་པ་ཉིད་ |
Wylie Tibetan Transliteration | stong pa nyid |
Devanagari Sanskrit Script | शून्यता |
Romanized Sanskrit | śūnyatā |
Tibetan Phonetic Rendering | tong pa nyi |
Sanskrit Phonetic Rendering | shunyata |
Chinese Script | 空; 空門 |
Chinese Pinyin | kōng; kōng mén |
Japanese Transliteration | kū; kūmon |
English Standard | emptiness |
Karl Brunnhölzl's English Term | emptiness |
Richard Barron's English Term | emptiness |
Jeffrey Hopkin's English Term | emptiness |
Gyurme Dorje's English Term | emptiness |
Ives Waldo's English Term | emptiness |
Term Type | Noun |
Source Language | Sanskrit |
Basic Meaning | The state of being empty of an innate nature due to a lack of independently existing characteristics. |
Has the Sense of | Though emptiness is generally predicated on the dependent origination of relative phenomena, it is a dialectic method of explaining the ultimate truth through a negative assertion and thereby highlighting what true reality lacks, rather than making a positive assertion of what that reality actually is. |
Related Terms | rangtong;zhentong |
Definitions | |
Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism | See page 871: In Sanskrit, “emptiness”; the term has a number of denotations, but is most commonly associated with the perfection of wisdom (prajñāpāramitā) sūtras and the Madhyamaka school of Mahāyāna philosophy. |
Tshig mdzod Chen mo | rang bzhin med pa'i gnas lugs sam de kho na nyid |
sutra/śastra quote: |
Form is emptiness; emptiness is form. |
sutra/śastra quote source: | Heart Sūtra |
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