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Also known as suññatā, emptiness, shunyata, sunyata

Śūnyatā ( ; ; "emptiness", "voidness", "vacuity") is an Indian philosophical concept In Buddhism, Jainism, Hinduism, and other Indian philosophical traditions. The concept has multiple meanings depending on its doctrinal context; an ontological feature of reality, a meditative state, or a phenomenological analysis of experience.

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  • Etymology
  • Development of the concept
  • Early Buddhism
  • Pāli Nikāyas
  • Meditative state
  • Chinese Āgamas
  • Early Buddhist schools and Abhidharma
  • Theravāda
  • Mahayana Buddhism
  • Prajñāpāramitā sūtras
  • Mādhyamaka school
  • Yogācāra school
  • Buddha-nature
  • Tibetan Buddhism
  • Chinese Buddhism
  • Sānlùn school
  • Tiantai and Huayan
  • Chán
  • Western Buddhism
  • Hinduism
  • Influence on Advaita Vedanta
  • In Shaivism
  • In Vaishnavism
  • In Shaktism
  • Alternative translations
  • See also
  • References
  • Notes
  • Citations
  • Works cited
  • Further reading

Śūnyatā ( ; ; "emptiness", "voidness", "vacuity") is an Indian philosophical concept In Buddhism, Jainism, Hinduism, and other Indian philosophical traditions. The concept has multiple meanings depending on its doctrinal context; an ontological feature of reality, a meditative state, or a phenomenological analysis of experience.

In Theravāda Buddhism, ' often refers to the non-self (Pāli: ', Sanskrit: ') nature of the five aggregates of experience and the six sense spheres. ' is also often used to refer to a meditative state or experience.

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