空諦

(空諦, 空谛)

The doctrine of immateriality, one of the three dogmas of Tiantai, that all things animate and inanimate, seeing that they result from previous causes and are without reality in themselves, are therefore [lang id =1028]空or not material, but "spiritual".

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空即虛幻之義， 謂諦審一切眾生及與世界等法， 性相本空， 虛假不實， 是名空諦。

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天台宗所立三諦之一。 見三諦條。