Śūnyatā | Wikipedia audio article
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Śūnyatā


00:00:54 1 Etymology
00:01:31 2 Development of the concept
00:02:21 3 Early Buddhism
00:02:30 3.1 Pāli Nikāyas
00:03:48 3.1.1 Emptiness of dhammas
00:04:14 3.1.2 Meditative state
00:05:40 3.2 Chinese Āgamas
00:07:04 4 Early Buddhist schools and Abhidharma
00:08:05 5 Theravada
00:11:22 6 Mahayana Buddhism
00:11:31 6.1 Prajna-paramita Sutras
00:12:17 6.2 Mādhyamaka
00:13:18 6.2.1 Nagarjuna
00:14:54 6.2.2 Svatantrika-Prasaṅgika distinction
00:15:59 6.2.3 Nihilism and eternalism
00:17:51 6.3 Yogacara
00:18:25 6.4 Buddha-nature and Yogacara-Madhyamaka
00:19:00 6.4.1 iTathāgatagarbha sūtras/i
00:21:14 6.4.2 Scholarly opinions
00:23:34 6.5 Tibetan Buddhism
00:24:29 6.5.1 Strict emptiness – Gelugpa
00:25:33 6.5.2 Nature of mind
00:25:41 6.5.2.1 Nyingma/Dzogchen
00:26:00 6.5.2.2 Bon
00:26:54 6.5.2.3 Sakya
00:27:35 6.5.3 Shentong (Buddha-nature)
00:27:44 6.5.3.1 Jonang
00:30:13 6.5.3.2 Kagyu
00:31:50 6.6 Chinese Buddhism
00:32:35 6.6.1 Chán
00:32:59 6.7 Western Buddhism
00:33:25 7 Hinduism
00:33:34 7.1 Influence on Advaita Vedanta
00:36:27 7.2 In Shaivism
00:37:50 7.3 In Vaishnavism
00:39:21 8 Alternate translations
00:39:42 9 See also



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Śūnyatā (Sanskrit: शून्यता, translit. śūnyatā; Pali: suññatā) – pronounced ‘shoonyataa’, translated into English most often as emptiness and sometimes voidness – is a Buddhist concept which has multiple meanings depending on its doctrinal context. It is either an ontological feature of reality, a meditative state, or a phenomenological analysis of experience.
In Theravada Buddhism, suññatā often refers to the non-self (Pāli: anattā, Sanskrit: anātman) nature of the five aggregates of experience and the six sense spheres. Suññatā is also often used to refer to a meditative state or experience.
In Mahayana, Sunyata refers to the tenet that "all things are empty of intrinsic existence and nature (svabhava),"   but may also refer to the Buddha-nature teachings and primordial or empty awareness, as in Dzogchen and Shentong.