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སྟོང་པ་ཉིད། | Glossary of Terms
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སྟོང་པ་ཉིད།
- སྟོང་པ་ཡིད།
- stong pa nyid
- stong pa yid
- śūnyatā
- śūnyata
- Term
Emptiness denotes the ultimate nature of reality, the total absence of inherent existence and self-identity with respect to all phenomena. According to this view, all things and events are devoid of any independent, intrinsic reality that constitutes their essence. Nothing can be said to exist independent of the complex network of factors that gives rise to its origination, nor are phenomena independent of the cognitive processes and mental constructs that make up the conventional framework within which their identity and existence are posited. When all levels of conceptualization dissolve and when all forms of dichotomizing tendencies are quelled through deliberate meditative deconstruction of conceptual elaborations, the ultimate nature of reality will finally become manifest. It is the first of the three gateways to liberation.
- emptiness
- སྟོང་པ་ཉིད།
- stong pa nyid
- śūnyatā
- emptiness
- སྟོང་པ་ཉིད།
- stong pa nyid
- śūnyatā
- emptiness
- སྟོང་པ་ཉིད།
- stong pa nyid
- śūnyatā
Emptiness denotes the ultimate nature of reality, the total absence of inherent existence and self-identity with respect to all phenomena. According to this view, all things and events are devoid of any independent, intrinsic reality that constitutes their essence. Nothing can be said to exist independently from the complex network of factors that gives rise to their origination, nor are phenomena independent of the cognitive processes and mental constructs that make up the conventional framework within which their identity and existence are posited. When all levels of conceptualization dissolve and when all forms of dichotomizing tendencies are quelled through deliberate meditative deconstruction of conceptual elaborations, the ultimate nature of reality will finally become manifest. It is the first of the three gateways to liberation.
- emptiness
- སྟོང་པ་ཉིད།
- stong pa nyid
- śūnyatā
- 空
- emptiness
- སྟོང་པ་ཉིད།
- stong pa nyid
- śūnyatā
In the Mahāyāna, this refers to the lack of any intrinsic nature in all phenomena that would allow them to be regarded as ultimately real, independently existing entities.
- emptiness
- སྟོང་པ་ཉིད།
- stong pa nyid
- śūnyatā
- 空寂
The absence of independent, singular, and permanent existence; one of the three gateways of liberation.
- emptiness
- སྟོང་པ་ཉིད།
- stong pa nyid
- śūnyatā
- 空
- emptiness
- སྟོང་པ་ཉིད།
- stong pa nyid
- śūnyatā
- 空
One of the three doors of liberation.
- emptiness
- སྟོང་པ་ཉིད།
- stong pa nyid
- śūnyatā
A term used to describe how phenomena are devoid of any nature of their own. One of the three doors of liberation.
- emptiness
- སྟོང་པ་ཉིད།
- stong pa nyid
- śūnyatā
Meditative concentration which realizes the non-self of persons and phenomena; the first of the three doors of liberation.
- emptiness
- སྟོང་པ་ཉིད།
- stong pa nyid
- śūnyata
The absence of independent, singular, and permanent existence. One of the three gateways to liberation, the other two being signlessness and wishlessness.
- emptiness
- སྟོང་པ་ཉིད།
- stong pa nyid
- śūnyatā
- emptiness
- སྟོང་པ་ཉིད།
- stong pa nyid
- śūnyatā
In the Mahāyāna this is the term for how phenomena are devoid of any nature of their own. One of the three doorways to liberation along with the absence of aspiration and the absence of attributes.
- emptiness
- སྟོང་པ་ཉིད།
- stong pa nyid
- śūnyatā
- emptiness
- སྟོང་པ་ཉིད།
- stong pa nyid
- śūnyatā
One of the three gateways to liberation along with absence of characteristics and absence of wishes.
- emptiness
- སྟོང་པ་ཉིད།
- stong pa nyid
- śūnyatā
- emptiness
- སྟོང་པ་ཉིད།
- stong pa nyid
- śūnyatā
In this text, refers to one of the three gates of liberation.
- emptiness
- སྟོང་པ་ཡིད།
- stong pa yid
- śūnyatā
In the Great Vehicle this is the term for how phenomena are devoid of any nature of their own. Also, one of the three gateways to liberation.
- emptiness
- སྟོང་པ་ཉིད།
- stong pa nyid
- śūnyatā
One of the three gateways to liberation.
- emptiness
- སྟོང་པ་ཉིད།
- stong pa nyid
- śūnyatā
The absence of independent, singular, and permanent existence; one of the three gateways to liberation.
- emptiness
- སྟོང་པ་ཉིད།
- stong pa nyid
- śūnyatā
Emptiness denotes the ultimate nature of reality, the total absence of inherent existence and self-identity with respect to all phenomena. According to this view, all things and events are devoid of any independent, intrinsic reality that constitutes their essence. Nothing can be said to exist independently from the complex network of factors that gives rise to its origination, nor are phenomena independent of the cognitive processes and mental constructs that make up the conventional framework within which their identity and existence are posited. In this sūtra, monks on the vehicle of the śrāvakas and the Great Vehicle both are to apprehend dharmas as empty. The Abhidharma position that dharmas exist as ontological simples appears by and large to be rejected here.
- emptiness
- སྟོང་པ་ཉིད།
- stong pa nyid
- śūnyatā
This Skt. term is usually translated by “voidness” because that English word is more rarely used in other contexts than “emptiness” and does not refer to any sort of ultimate nothingness, as a thing-in-itself, or even as the thing-in-itself to end all things-in-themselves. It is a pure negation of the ultimate existence of anything or, in Buddhist terminology, the “emptiness with respect to personal and phenomenal selves,” or “with respect to identity,” or “with respect to intrinsic nature,” or “with respect to essential substance,” or “with respect to self-existence established by intrinsic identity,” or “with respect to ultimate truth-status,” etc. Thus emptiness is a concept descriptive of the ultimate reality through its pure negation of whatever may be supposed to be ultimately real. It is an absence, hence not existent in itself. It is synonymous therefore with “infinity,” “absolute,” etc.—themselves all negative terms, i.e., formed etymologically from a positive concept by adding a negative prefix (in + finite = not finite; ab + solute = not compounded, etc.). But, since our verbally conditioned mental functions are habituated to the connection of word and thing, we tend to hypostatize a “void,” analogous to “outer space,” a “vacuum,” etc., which we either shrink from as a nihilistic nothingness or become attached to as a liberative nothingness; this great mistake can be cured only by realizing the meaning of the “emptiness of emptiness,” which brings us to the tolerance of inconceivability.
- emptiness
- སྟོང་པ་ཉིད།
- stong pa nyid
- śūnyatā
One of the three gateways of liberation: emptiness, signlessness, and wishlessness.
- emptiness
- སྟོང་པ་ཉིད།
- stong pa nyid
- śūnyatā
One of the three gateways to liberation; the empty nature of phenomena.
- emptiness
- སྟོང་པ་ཉིད།
- stong pa nyid
- śūnyatā
The absence of independent, singular, and permanent existence; one of the three gateways to liberation; the other two are signlessness and wishlessness.
- emptiness
- སྟོང་པ་ཉིད།
- stong pa nyid
- śūnyatā
- emptiness
- སྟོང་པ་ཉིད།
- stong pa nyid
- śūnyatā
In the Mahāyāna, it refers to the lack of any intrinsic nature in all phenomena that would allow them to be regarded as real, independently existing entities.
- emptiness
- སྟོང་པ་ཉིད།
- stong pa nyid
- śūnyatā
Emptiness denotes the ultimate nature of reality, the total absence of inherent existence and self-identity with respect to all phenomena. According to this view, all things and events are devoid of any independent, intrinsic reality that constitutes their essence. Nothing can be said to exist independently from the complex network of factors that gives rise to their origination, nor are phenomena independent of the cognitive processes and mental constructs that make up the conventional framework within which their identity and existence are posited. When all levels of conceptualization dissolve and when all forms of dichotomizing tendencies are quelled through deliberate meditative deconstruction of conceptual elaborations, the ultimate nature of reality will finally become manifest.
- emptiness
- སྟོང་པ་ཉིད།
- stong pa nyid
- śūnyatā
In the Mahāyāna this is the term for how phenomena are devoid of any nature of their own. One of the three gateways of liberation along with the absence of wishes and the absence of marks.
- emptiness
- སྟོང་པ་ཉིད།
- stong pa nyid
- śūnyatā
- emptiness
- སྟོང་པ་ཉིད།
- stong pa nyid
- śūnyatā
One of the three terms associated with the nature of reality in the context of the three gateways to liberation.
- emptiness
- སྟོང་པ་ཉིད།
- stong pa nyid
- śūnyatā
- emptiness
- སྟོང་པ་ཉིད།
- stong pa nyid
- śūnyatā
- emptinesses
- སྟོང་པ་ཉིད།
- stong pa nyid
- śūnyatā
This could refer to any of a number of enumerations of emptinesses. “Seven emptinesses,” “fourteen emptinesses,” and “eighteen emptinesses” are listed in this sūtra.
- śūnyatā
- སྟོང་པ་ཉིད།
- stong pa nyid
- śūnyatā
Voidness, emptiness; specifically, the emptiness of absolute substance, truth, identity, intrinsic reality, or self of all persons and things in the relative world, being quite opposed to any sort of absolute nothingness (see glossary, under “emptiness”).
- voidness
- སྟོང་པ་ཉིད།
- stong pa nyid
- śūnyatā
See “emptiness.”