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voidness

TECHNICAL TERM DETAILS (English)

Term voidness

Referenced by:
emptiness (alternative term)
Tibetan stong-pa-nyid
Sanskrit shunyata
Pali
Definition An absence of an impossible way of existing. The impossible way of existing has never existed at all. Translators often render the term as "emptiness."

TRANSLATION (French)

Translation vacuité
Definition L'absence d'une façon impossible d'exister. La façon impossible d'exister n'a jamais existé du tout. Les traducteurs rendent souvent le terme par "vide".

OTHER TRANSLATIONS

Arabic الخلو
German Leerheit
Persian (Farsi) خلاء
French vacuité
Italian vacuità
Jeffrey Hopkins En, Ti... emptiness
Russian пустотность
Vietnamese không tướng, tánh không (tùy theo context của câu)
Chinese (simplified) 空
Chinese (traditional) 空