Abhāva śūnyatā
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abhāva śūnyatā (T. དངོས་པོ་མེད་པའི་སྟོང་པ་ཉིད་; C. wuxing kong 無性空). Translated as "emptiness of lack of a thing", "emptiness of the absence of things", "emptiness of non-thing", etc.[1][2] One of the twenty types of emptiness, according to the Madhyamakāvatāra.
The Madhyamakāvatāra states:
In short, “absences of things” are
All noncomposite phenomena.
Absences of things are empty of themselves,
And this is the “emptiness of the absences of things.”[3]
Notes
- ↑
དངོས་པོ་མེད་པའི་སྟོང་པ་ཉིད་, Christian-Steinert Dictionary
- ↑ Buswell & Lopez 2014, s.v. Lists of Lists, "eighteen emptinesses".
- ↑ Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso 2003, Appendix 3.
Sources
Buswell, Robert E.; Lopez, Donald S. (2014), The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism, Princeton University
Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso (2003), The Sun of Wisdom, translated by Ari Goldfield, Shambhala