Śūnyatā

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Key Term	śūnyatā
In Tibetan Script	སྟོང་པ་ཉིད་
Wylie Tibetan Transliteration	stong pa nyid
Devanagari Sanskrit Script	शून्यता
Romanized Sanskrit	śūnyatā
Tibetan Phonetic Rendering	shunyata
Chinese Script	空
Chinese Pinyin	Kōng
Japanese Script	空
Japanese Transliteration	Kū
English Standard	emptiness
Term Type	Noun
Source Language	Sanskrit
Definitions
Tshig mdzod Chen mo	rang bzhin med pa'i gnas lugs sam de kho na nyid

The state of being empty of an innate nature due to a lack of independently existing characteristics.

The state of being empty of an innate nature due to a lack of independently existing characteristics.

The reality or the objective state of things as they are. In the Buddhist context, it refers to the ultimate nature of things although what exactly suchness means would depend on the philosophical position of the specific schools. The Middle Way school, for instance, consider emptiness as the suchness of all things.