| 释义 |
‖ sunyata Buddhism.|suːˈnjataː, ʃ-|
Also çûnyatâ.
[Skr. śūnyátā emptiness, non-existence, f. śūnyá empty, void.]
The concept of the essential emptiness of all things and of ultimate reality as a void beyond worldly phenomena.
1907D. T. Suzuki Outl. Mahâyâna Buddhism vii. 173 The emptiness of things (çûnyatâ) does not mean nothingness..but..conditionality or transitoriness of all phenomenal existences. 1916A. Coomaraswamy Buddha & Gospel of Buddhism v. 318 The Prajn̄āpāramitās are filled with..texts upon the Emptiness (Sunyata) of things. 1938B. L. Suzuki Mahayana Buddhism i. 15 Sunyata is what is left behind after an endless series of negations, and is therefore the most positive and fundamental of ideas. 1951E. Conze Buddhism v. 130 We must now make an effort to understand this all-important idea of Emptiness... What we call emptiness in English is sūnyatā in sanskrit. 1978C. Humphreys Both Sides Circle v. 57 What I call the mystical metaphysics of the Madhyamika (Middle Way) School, founded by Nagarjuna and expanded through several centuries into the ultimate concept of sunyata, ‘no-thing-ness’. |
