Śūnyatā
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| Key Term | śūnyatā |
|---|---|
| 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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