Śūnyatā (devanāgarī: शून्यता, pāli: suññatā, cinese: 空 pinyin: kōng, coreano: gong, giapponese: kū, tibetano: stong-pan-yid, tr.it. Vacuità) è un sostantivo femminile della lingua sanscrita che indica una delle dottrine fondamentali nel Buddhismo, secondo cui la realtà non ha esistenza intrinseca ma sorge dalla pratītyasamutpāda (traducibile come "coproduzione ...

Chan (traditional Chinese: 禪; simplified Chinese: 禅; pinyin: Chán; abbr. of Chinese: 禪那; pinyin: chánnà), from Sanskrit dhyāna (meaning "meditation" or "meditative state"), is a Chinese school of Mahāyāna Buddhism.It developed in China from the 6th century CE onwards, becoming especially popular during the Tang and Song dynasties.. Chan is the originating tradition of …

Platonic realism is the philosophical position that universals or abstract objects exist objectively and outside of human minds. It is named after the Greek philosopher Plato who applied realism to such universals, which he considered ideal forms.This stance is ambiguously also called Platonic idealism but should not be confused with idealism as presented by philosophers such as …

Le Sūtra du diamant est l'un des sūtra les plus connus et commentés du bouddhisme mahāyāna [1].C’est aussi l’un des plus courts parmi les sutras Prajnaparamita.Il joue un rôle particulièrement important dans les courants méditatifs comme le chan et le zen et serait selon la tradition le sutra préféré du maître chan Huineng.. C'est, selon la British Library, « le plus ancien ...

A bhikkhu (Pali: भिक्खु, Sanskrit: भिक्षु, bhikṣu) is an ordained male in Buddhist monasticism. Male and female monastics ("nun", bhikkhunī, Sanskrit bhikṣuṇī) are members of the Sangha (Buddhist community).The lives of all Buddhist monastics are governed by a set of rules called the prātimokṣa or pātimokkha. Their lifestyles are shaped to support their ...

The Junagadh rock inscription of Rudradaman, also known as the Girnar Rock inscription of Rudradaman, is a Sanskrit prose inscribed on a rock by the Western Satraps ruler Rudradaman I.It is located near Girnar hill near Junagadh, Gujarat, India.The inscription is dated to shortly after 150 CE. The Junagadh rock contains inscriptions of Ashoka (one of fourteen of the Major Rock …

Hase-dera (海光山慈照院長谷寺, Kaikō-zan Jishō-in Hase-dera), commonly called the Hase-kannon (長谷観音) is one of the Buddhist temples in the city of Kamakura in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, famous for housing a massive wooden statue of Kannon.. The temple originally belonged to the Tendai sect of Buddhism, but eventually became an independent temple of …

The philosophy of self is the study of wisdom as self at a conceptual level. Many different ideas on what constitutes self have been proposed, including the self being an activity, the self being independent of the senses, the bundle theory of the self, the self as a narrative center of gravity, and the self as a syntactic construct rather than an entity.

In most contexts, the concept of good denotes the conduct that should be preferred when posed with a choice between possible actions. Good is generally considered to be the opposite of evil and is of interest in the study of ethics, morality, philosophy, and religion. The specific meaning and etymology of the term and its associated translations among ancient and contemporary …

Shunyata (Sanskrit शून्यता śūnyatā, f.; Pali: suññatā ; chinesisch 空, Pinyin kōng, W.-G. k'ung ; koreanisch 공 kong / gong ; japanisch 空, kū ; tibetisch སྟོང་པ་ཉིད, stong pa nyid (Wylie-System, gespr. tong pa nyi)), im Deutschen meist Leerheit, ist ein zentraler Begriff des Buddhismus.Er bedeutet, sehr grob umrissen, dass alle Erscheinungen – da ...