sunyata

Examples

• All

• Sunyata is not a nothingness that can be objectified and contrasted with something.

  Academic text (1999)

• Implied in Sunyata are the ever-changing nature of the world and the impermanence of things.

  Academic text (2017)

• The wisdom of Sunyata tells us that you cannot give to another without giving to yourself.

  Fiction book (2001)

• But Sunyata is not merely the static absence of self-nature.

  Academic text (1999)

• The term "emptiness" or sunyata is rarely found in early Buddhism.

  Academic text (1999)

• By contrast, the insight into Sunyata is a dialectical realization that is both critical and affirmative of phenomenal reality.

  Academic text (1999)

• Sunyata is dynamic, "a pure and unceasing function of self-emptying, making self and others manifest in their suchness.

  Academic text (1999)

• If Buddhism appears to manifest quietistic tendencies, it is because sunyata is all too easily misunderstood as something static.

  Academic text (1999)

• The logic of this dialectical realization of Sunyata gives rise to the distinctly Mahayana notion of the bodhisattva.

  Academic text (1999)

• While the Prajna-paramita Sutras introduce this new understanding of sunyata, it is the second-century philosopher, Nagarjuna, who presents the systematic explication of the doctrine.

  Academic text (1999)

Synonyms

E

emptiness

vssunyata

14 3.6

A space or place that has nothing in it

describes a spiritual absence of inherent existence and meditative non attachment

V

voidness

vssunyata

• Formal

3 9.9

A state in which things do not have their own separate, lasting existence

focuses on a Buddhist idea and the meditative state of inner non attachment

Antonyms

E

existence

838 2.8

The state of being real or alive

F

fullness

7 2.7

A state in which something has as much inside as it can hold

Surface Forms

Etymology