Śūnyatā
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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 Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism, and other philosophical strands, 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.
Translations of Śūnyatā | |
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English | emptiness, voidness, vacuity, openness, thusness, nothingness |
Sanskrit | Śūnyatā (Dev: शून्यता) |
Pali | Suññatā (Dev: सुञ्ञता) |
Bengali | শূন্যতা (Shunnôta) |
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 |
Tibetan | སྟོང་པ་ཉིད་ (Wylie: stong-pa nyid THL: tongpa nyi) |
Tagalog | Sunyata (ᜐᜓᜈ᜔ᜌᜆ) |
Thai | สุญตา (S̄uỵtā) |
Vietnamese | Không (空) |
Glossary of Buddhism |
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.