(sa) śūnya, empty, void, hollow, vacant, nonexistent. (sa) śūnyatā, [lang id =1028]舜若多, vacuity, voidness, emptiness, non-existence, immateriality, perhaps spirituality, unreality, the false or illusory nature of all existence, the seeming [lang id =1028]假 being unreal. The doctrine that all phenomena and the ego have no reality, but are composed of a certain number of (sa) skandhas or elements, which disintegrate. The void, the sky, space. The universal, the absolute, complete abstraction without relativity. There are classifications into 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 11, 13, 16, and 18 categories. The doctrine is that all things are compounds, or unstable organisms, possessing no self-essence, i.e. are dependent, or caused, come into existence only to perish. The underlying reality, the principle of eternal relativity, or non-infinity, i.e. (sa) śūnya, permeates all phenomena making possible their evolution. From this doctrine the Yogācārya school developed the idea of the permanent reality, which is Essence of Mind, the unknowable noumenon behind all phenomena, the entity void of ideas and phenomena, neither matter nor mind, but the root of both.
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因緣所生之法, 究竟而無實體曰空。 又謂理體之空寂。 《維摩經・弟子品》曰: ‘諸法究竟無所有, 是空義。’ 同注‘肇曰: 小乘觀法緣起, 內無真主為空義。 雖能觀空, 而於空未能都泯, 故不究竟。 大乘在有不有, 在空不空, 理無不極, 所以究竟空義也。’ 大乘義章二曰: ‘空者就理彰名, 理寂名空。’
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因緣和合而生的一切事物, 究竟而無實體, 叫做空, 也是假和不實的意思。

Dictionary of Buddhist terms. 2013.

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