Śūnyatā
| Translations of Śūnyatā | |
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| English | emptiness, voidness, vacuity, openness, thusness, nothingness |
| Sanskrit | Śūnyatā (Devanagari: शून्यता) |
| Pali | Suññatā (Devanagari: सुञ्ञता) |
| Bengali | শূন্যতা (Śūnnôtā) |
| Burmese | သုညတ (thone nya ta) |
| Chinese | 空 (Pinyin: Kōng) |
| Japanese | 空 (Rōmaji: Kū) |
| Khmer | សុញ្ញតា (UNGEGN: Sŏnhnhôta) |
| Korean | 공성 (空性) (RR: gong-seong) |
| Mongolian | хоосон |
| Sinhala | Shunyatā (Sinhala: ශුන්යතා) |
| Tibetan | སྟོང་པ་ཉིད་ (Wylie: stong-pa nyid THL: tongpa nyi) |
| Tagalog | Sunyata (ᜐᜓᜈ᜔ᜌᜆ) |
| Thai | สุญตา (S̄uỵtā) |
| Vietnamese | Không (空) |
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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. In Buddhism, Jainism, Hinduism, and other Indian philosophical traditions, the concept has multiple meanings depending on its doctrinal context. It is either an ontological feature of reality, a meditative state, or a phenomenological analysis of experience.
In Theravāda Buddhism, Pali: suññatā often refers to the non-self (Pāli: anattā, Sanskrit: anātman)[note 1] nature of the five aggregates of experience and the six sense spheres. Pali: Suññatā is also often used to refer to a meditative state or experience.
In Mahāyāna Buddhism, śūnyatā refers to the tenet that "all things are empty of intrinsic existence and nature (svabhava)",[5][6] but may also refer to the Buddha-nature teachings and primordial or empty awareness, as in Dzogchen, Shentong, or Chan.
- ^ Dale Mathers; Melvin E. Miller; Osamu Ando (2013). Self and No-Self: Continuing the Dialogue Between Buddhism and Psychotherapy. Routledge. p. 81. ISBN 978-1-317-72386-8.
- ^ Nyanatiloka. "Suñña". Manual of Buddhist Terms and Doctrines. Archived from the original on February 28, 2014.
- ^ Chattopadhyay, Madhumita (2017), Sarao, K. T. S.; Long, Jeffery D. (eds.), "śūnyatā", Buddhism and Jainism, Encyclopedia of Indian Religions, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, pp. 1148–1155, doi:10.1007/978-94-024-0852-2_364, ISBN 978-94-024-0852-2, retrieved July 16, 2023
- ^ Bronkhorst 2009, p. 124.
- ^ Williams 2008, pp. 68–69.
- ^ Gowans, Christopher W. (2014). Buddhist Moral Philosophy: An Introduction. Routledge. pp. 69–70. ISBN 978-1-317-65934-1.
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