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虛

Pronunciations

Basic Meaning: void

Senses:

  • Empty, vacuous, clear (Skt. rikta, *śunya; Tib. gsob). [Charles Muller; source(s): Nakamura, Stephen Hodge]
  • Space, sky. (ākāśa) [Charles Muller]
  • Vain, worthless; false, unreal; chimeric (Skt. mṛṣā, mithyā abhūta). [Robert Buswell]
  • To empty, to make empty. While the term is often equivalent in connotation to gong 空, gong is used in Buddhist texts with mainly positive soteriological connotations, while xu is often used with negative connotations of nothingness, blankness, or falsity. [Charles Muller]
  • (Skt. tuccha, vyartha; dhaniṣṭha; anṛta, apadeśa, asthira, kṛtrima, pratirūpa rikta-tuccha, vandhya, vasika) [Charles Muller; source(s): Hirakawa]
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    [Dictionary References]

    Bukkyōgo daijiten (Nakamura) 349b

    Buddhist Chinese-Sanskrit Dictionary (Hirakawa) 1034

    Sanskrit-Tibetan Index for the Yogâcārabhūmi-śāstra (Yokoyama and Hirosawa)

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    Entry created: 1993-09-01

    Updated: 2017-10-29