Digital Dictionary of Buddhism

DDB Top Page 
 
 
  XML source

空執

Pronunciations

Basic Meaning: attachment to emptiness

Senses:

  • An erroneous understanding of śūnyatā, wherein one clings to the idea of voidness, consequently negating the law of causality; the antithesis of attachment to existence 有執. See 空有二執. Also expressed as 減執. 〔成唯識論述記 T 1830.43.243c5 〕 [Charles Muller; source(s): Ui, Nakamura, Soothill, JEBD]
  • Search SAT
  • Search INBUDS Database

    • Feedback

    [Dictionary References]

    Bukkyō jiten (Ui) 216

    Japanese-English Buddhist Dictionary (Daitō shuppansha) 188a/209

    Bukkyōgo daijiten (Nakamura) 281d

    Ding Fubao {Digital Version}

    Bukkyō daijiten (Oda) 281-3

    Soothill 216, 276

    Copyright provisions

    The rights to textual segments (nodes) of the DDB are owned by the author indicated in the brackets next to each segment. For rights regarding the compilation as a whole, please contact Charles Muller. Please do not reproduce without permission. And please do not copy into Wikipedia without proper citation!

    Entry created: 2002-06-25

    Updated: 2015-06-05