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| The Meaning of Emptiness for the Enlightened Ones | ||
| 作者 | Han, Sung-ja |
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| 出處題名 | International Journal of Buddhist Thought & Culture=국제불교문화사상사학회 |
| 卷期 | v.18 |
| 出版日期 | 2012.02 |
| 頁次 | 63 - 79 |
| 出版者 | International Association for Buddhist Thought and Culture |
| 出版者網址 | http://iabtc.org/ |
| 出版地 | Seoul, Korea [首爾, 韓國] |
| 資料類型 | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 關鍵詞 | Deliverance of Mind through Emptiness; Signless Deliverance of Mind; Empty of a Self or of Anything Pertaining to a Self; Abiding in Emptiness; Bodhisattva |
| 摘要 | The concept of emptiness, or Sunyata in Sanskrit, Sunnata in Pali, is mainly known as the fundamental teaching of Mahayana Buddhism. As is becoming known through recent interest in Theravada Buddhism, however, there are sufficient discourses of the Buddha in the Pali Nikaya dealing with emptiness. This article investigates several Pali Suttas dealing with emptiness to find its exact meaning and see whether it has something in common with the concept of emptiness developed in the Mahayana scriptures like the Prajnaparamita Sutras. The following are the results of the investigation of emptiness. The concept of emptiness can be viewed in three different meanings. Firstly, emptiness means the final deliverance of mind from the finest meditative attainments. Secondly, it refers to the nature of persons or things which is empty of a self or of anything pertaining to a self. Finally, the last and the most important meaning of emptiness is related to the practice of abiding in emptiness through which all the Enlightened Ones avoid contamination from the defilements of the world while still abiding in the world. This last meaning of emptiness provides the basis for the concept of the Bodhisattva in Mahayana Buddhism. How the Bodhisattva remains in the secular world without being contaminated by its defilements is accomplished by abiding in emptiness concentration. |
| ISSN | 15987914 (P) |
| 點閱次數 | 180 |
| 建檔日期 | 2015.07.13 |
| 更新日期 | 2017.07.12 |
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