"Śūnyatā" (Sanskrit) is usually translated as "devoidness", "emptiness", "hollow", "hollowness", "voidness". It is the noun form of the adjective … See more

The concept of śūnyatā as "emptiness" is related to the concept of anatta in early Buddhism. Over time, many different philosophical schools or tenet-systems (Sanskrit: siddhānta) have developed within Buddhism in an effort to explain the exact See more

Many of the early Buddhist schools featured śūnyatā as an important part of their teachings.
The Sarvastivadin school's Abhidharma texts like the … See more

There are two main sources of Indian Buddhist discussions of emptiness: the Mahayana sutra literature, which is traditionally believed to be the word of the Buddha in Mahayana Buddhism, and the shastra literature, which was composed by Buddhist scholars … See more

Pāli Nikāyas
The Pāli Canon uses the term śūnyatā ("emptiness") in three ways: "(1) as a meditative dwelling, (2) as an attribute of objects, and (3) as a type of awareness-release."
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Theravāda Buddhists generally take the view that emptiness is merely the not-self nature of the five aggregates. Emptiness is an important door … See more

Influence on Advaita Vedanta
Gaudapada has developed his concept of "ajāta", which uses the term "anutpāda":
• "An" means "not", or "non"
• "Utpāda" means "genesis", "coming forth", "birth"
Taken together … See more