Sunyata

Sunyata: Zen and Buddhism Dictionary on Sunyata

Sunyata: Emptiness or void. Though this sounds negative, sunyata is actually positive, it is an affirmation. Emptiness is not void. Emptiness is not empty. Empty without emptiness.

(See also: Sunyata, Buddhism, Body Mind and Soul)

Sunyata: Tantra Tantric Dictionary on Sunyata

Sunyata:

Sunyata. The void. The abyss.

Sunyata: Mysticism Magick Dictionary on SUNYATA

SUNYATA

The Void, Emptiness, the Abyss, Chaos. The essentially void nature of phenomena. Realized only when non-being is seen as the origin of being.

(See also: SUNYATA, Magick, Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary, Body Mind and Soul, )

Sunyata: : Buddha-nature

Buddha-nature (originally in Sanskrit, "Buddha-dhatu" - "Buddha Element", "Buddha-Principle") is a doctrine important for many schools of Mahayana Buddhism. The Buddha-nature ("Buddha-dhatu") is taught to be a truly real eternal potential or principle, present in all sentient beings, for awakening and becoming Enlightened. The Buddha-nature doctrine relates to the possession by sentient beings of the innate buddha-mind or buddha-element ("Buddha-dhatu"), which is, prior to the full attainment of buddhahood, not fully actualized, or at ...

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Buddha-nature - Development of Buddha-nature
Buddha-nature - Buddha-nature vs. atman

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Buddhist texts - Canonical texts
Buddhist texts - Non-canonical texts
Buddhist texts - Texts of the Nikaya Schools

Buddhist texts - Sutta
Buddhist texts - Abhidharma
Buddhist texts - Non-canonical texts

Buddhist texts - Mahayana texts

Buddhist texts - Perfection of Wisdom Texts
Buddhist texts - Saddharma-pundarika
Buddhist texts - Pure Land Sutras
Buddhist texts - The Vimalakirti Nirdesha Sutra
Buddhist texts - Samadhi Sutras
Buddhist texts - Confession Sutras
Buddhist texts - The Avatamsaka Sutra
Buddhist texts - Third Turning Sutras
Buddhist texts - Tathagatagarbha class sutras
Buddhist texts - Collected Sutras
Buddhist texts - Transmigration Sutras
Buddhist texts - Discipline Sutras
Buddhist texts - Sutras Devoted to Individual Figures
Buddhist texts - Proto-Mahayana Sutras
Buddhist texts - Non-canonical texts
Buddhist texts - References

Buddhist texts - Vajrayana Texts

Buddhist texts - Buddhist tantras
Buddhist texts - Other products of the Vajrayana literature

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Abe Masao - Guest professor

Sunyata: Encyclopedia - Akashic Brotherhood

Akashic Brotherhood is a Tradition of mages in Mage: the Ascension role-playing game game from White Wolf Game Studio. Their focus is Mind. Akashic Brothers (and Sisters) believe in, and strive to attain, the perfect harmony of one's individual mind with the One Mind. While this is quite Buddhist concept, this tradition doesn't limit itself to Buddhism, although it is intended to reflect an eastern way of mystical thinking. It includes elements of Veda ...

Sunyata: Encyclopedia - Vajra

Vajra is a Sanskrit word meaning both thunderbolt and diamond and refers to a symbol important to both Hinduism and Buddhism. The equivalent word in Tibetan is dorje, which is also a common male name in Tibet and Bhutan. Dorje can also refer to a small sceptre held in the right hand by Tibetan lamas during religious ceremonies. In Hindu mythology the vajra is the thunderbolt weapon wielded by Indra, King of the Gods. It is storied to have been made from the bones of sage Dadhichi, an ascetic to kill ...

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Sunyata: Encyclopedia - Jodo Shinshu

Jōdo Shinshū (淨土眞宗 "True Pure Land School"), also known as Shin Buddhism, is a branch of Pure Land Buddhism derived from the teachings of the Japanese ex-Tendai preacher Shinran. Jodo Shinshu - The Founder: Shinran. Shinran originally practiced as a low-status monk, in a Tendai nembutsu worship hall. Then, just one-year before finishing the twenty-one year Tendai training course, he left the temple on Mount Hiei in disillusionment over his capacity for spiritual practice and also in disgust at wid ...

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Sunyata: Encyclopedia - Shikantaza

Shikantaza (只管打座) is literally translated as "only focused on doing sitting". More often it is called: "just sitting" or "silent illumination". It is the main meditation technique of the Soto school of Zen Buddhism. The "just" in "just sitting" has two connotations: Firstly, one should do nothing but the sitting. Secondly, one should sit in the right "mindful" way. The Shobogenzo, an ancient document by the zen master Dogen Zenji (1200-1253), is the most important description of shikantaza. Shikantaza - Meditatio ...

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Sunyata: Encyclopedia - Advaita Vedanta

Advaita Vedanta (IAST advaita vedānta; Devanagari अद्वैत वेदान्त; IPA [ədvaitə vé:dα:ntə]) is probably the best known of all Vedanta schools of philosophy of Hinduism, the others being Dvaita and Vishishtadvaita (total six). "Advaita" literally means "not two", an ...

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Advaita Vedanta - Are the world and God wholly false?

Advaita Vedanta - Other References

Sunyata: Encyclopedia - Buddha-nature

Buddha-nature (originally in Sanskrit, "Buddha-dhatu" - "Buddha Element", "Buddha-Principle") is a doctrine important for many schools of Mahayana Buddhism. The Buddha-nature ("Buddha-dhatu") is taught to be a truly real eternal potential or principle, present in all sentient beings, for awakening and becoming Enlightened. The Buddha-nature doctrine relates to the possession by sentient beings of the innate buddha-mind or buddha-element ("Buddha-dhatu"), which is, prior to the full attainment of buddhahood, not fully actualized, or at ...

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Sunyata: Encyclopedia - Ethics in religion

Ethics is a branch of philosophy dealing with right and wrong in human behaviour. All religions have a moral component, and religious approaches to the problem of ethics historically dominated ethics over secular approaches. From the point of view of theistic religions, to the extent that ethics stems from revealed truth from divine sources, ethics is studied as a branch of theology. Many believe that the Golden Rule, which teaches people to "treat others as you want to be treated", is the common denominator of all moral codes and religions. ...

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Ethics in religion - Ethics in the Bible

Sunyata: Encyclopedia - Hinayana

Hinayana (Sanskrit: "inferior vehicle"; Chinese: 小乘 Xiǎoshèng; Japanese: Shōjō; Vietnamese: Tiểu thừa) is a term coined by the Mahayana, which appeared publicly around the 1st century CE. There are differing views on the use and meaning of the term, both among scholars and within Buddhism. The meaning of 'vehicle' here is probably best understood as a 'movement', rather than some sort of school or tradition. Hinayana - In brief. Hinayana is used as a name to refer variously ...

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Sunyata: Encyclopedia - Winona Ryder

Winona Ryder (born Winona Laura Horowitz on October 29, 1971) is an American actress. Winona Ryder - Biography. Ryder was born in Olmstead County near Winona, Minnesota to Cindy Istas and Michael Horowitz, the son of Jewish immigrants from Russia and Romania. Her father's family was originally named 'Tomchin', but was wrongly assigned the name 'Horowitz' by U.S. immigration officials at Ellis Island. Ryder's parents named her 'Winona' after the town in Minnesota where she was born. She has a younger ...

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Sunyata: Encyclopedia - Buddhist texts

There are a great variety of Buddhist texts. Buddhists place varying value on them: attitudes range from worship of the text itself, to dismissal of some texts as falsification of the ineffable truth. They therefore cannot be called "scripture" in the sense of other religions. The texts can be categorized in a number of ways, but the most fundamental division is that between canonical and non-canonical texts. The former, also called the Sutras (Sanskrit) or Suttas (Pali), are held to be, literally or metaphoricall ...

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Buddhist texts - Mahayana texts

Buddhist texts - Vajrayana Texts

Sunyata: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary on Sunyata

Sunyata (Sanskrit). Void, space, nothingness. The name of our objective universe in the sense of its unreality and illusiveness.

Sunyata: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary on Maha Sunyata

Maha Sunyata (Sanskrit). Space, or eternal law; the great void or chaos.

Sunyata: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary on Svayambhu Sunyata

Svayambhu Sunyata (Sanskrit). Spontaneous self-evolution; self-existence of the real in the unreal, i.e., of the Eternal Sat in the periodical Asat.

Sunyata: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary on Svayambhu-sunyata

Svayambhu-sunyata (Sanskrit) [from svayambhu self-becoming + sunyata void]

The self-becoming void of infinitude; in Hindu and Buddhist metaphysics, sunyata means that which is empty or void to human eye or understanding because of feebleness of penetrating vision, but otherwise the absolute fullness of spirit. "Spontaneous self-evolution; self-existence of the real in the unreal, i.e., of the Eternal Sat in the periodical Asat" (TG 315).

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