Śūnyatā
Sign in to saveŚūnyatā ( ; ; "emptiness", "voidness", "vacuity") is an Indian philosophical concept In Buddhism, Jainism, Hinduism, and other Indian philosophical traditions. The concept has multiple meanings depending on its doctrinal context; an ontological feature of reality, a meditative state, or a phenomenological analysis of experience.
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- Etymology
- Development of the concept
- Early Buddhism
- Pāli Nikāyas
- Meditative state
- Chinese Āgamas
- Early Buddhist schools and Abhidharma
- Theravāda
- Mahayana Buddhism
- Prajñāpāramitā sūtras
- Mādhyamaka school
- Yogācāra school
- Buddha-nature
- Tibetan Buddhism
- Chinese Buddhism
- Sānlùn school
- Tiantai and Huayan
- Chán
- Western Buddhism
- Hinduism
- Influence on Advaita Vedanta
- In Shaivism
- In Vaishnavism
- In Shaktism
- Alternative translations
- See also
- References
- Notes
- Citations
- Works cited
- Further reading
Śūnyatā ( ; ; "emptiness", "voidness", "vacuity") is an Indian philosophical concept In Buddhism, Jainism, Hinduism, and other Indian philosophical traditions. The concept has multiple meanings depending on its doctrinal context; an ontological feature of reality, a meditative state, or a phenomenological analysis of experience.
In Theravāda Buddhism, ' often refers to the non-self (Pāli: ', Sanskrit: ') nature of the five aggregates of experience and the six sense spheres. ' is also often used to refer to a meditative state or experience.