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The concept of śūnyatā as "emptiness" is related to the concept of anatta in early Buddhism. [8] Over time, many different philosophical schools or tenet-systems (Sanskrit: siddhānta) [9] have developed within Buddhism in an effort to explain the exact philosophical meaning of emptiness.
The emptiness that is reached by rational analysis (this is actually only an analogue, and not the real thing). The emptiness that yogis fathom by means of their own individual gnosis (prajña). This is the real ultimate truth, which is reached by negating the previous rational understanding of emptiness.
The Yogācāra school also gave special significance to the Āgama sutra called Lesser Discourse on Emptiness (parallel to the Pali Cūḷasuññatasutta, [93] [94] MN 121) and relies on this sutra in its explanations of emptiness. According to Gadjin Nagao, this sutra affirms that "emptiness includes both being and non-being. both negation and ...
Nāgārjuna's major thematic focus is the concept of śūnyatā (translated into English as "emptiness") which brings together other key Buddhist doctrines, particularly anātman "not-self" and pratītyasamutpāda "dependent origination", to refute the metaphysics of some of his contemporaries.
English translation of the Heart Sutra with Korean Seon commentary 2013 ISBN 978-1-61429-053-7: Kazuaki Tanahashi: The Heart Sutra: A Comprehensive Guide to the Classic of Mahayana Buddhism: Shambhala Publications: English translation of the Heart Sutra with history and commentary 2015 ISBN 978-1-61180-096-8: Peter Lunde Johnson
the nonduality of two facets of a single reality—namely, wisdom , or emptiness (sunyata), and method , or compassion . The word "time" refers to the gnosis of imperishable bliss (aksara-sukha-jñana), which is a method consisting of compassion; and the word "wheel" designates wisdom consisting of emptiness. Their unity is the Buddha Kālacakra.
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Since it withstands analysis through reasoning, one can only mistake it for something that it is not when one subjects it to such analysis." [ 1 ] Dölpopa states that this ultimate reality is the same as "the reflections of the emptiness endowed with all supreme aspects" (sarvākāravaropetāśūnyatā) taught in the Kālacakra, which is an ...