tman_and_moksa

SR No.: 020053
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: G N Joshi
Publisher: Gujarat University
Publication Year: 1965
Total Pages: 901
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 12 MB

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Buddhism
Acharya Shri Kailashsagarsuri Gyanmandir
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among themselves. Stcherbatsky explains it in the following way-"Since we use the term relative" to describe the fact that a thing can be identified only by mentioning its relations to something else, and becomes meaningless without these relations, implying at the same time that the thing in question is unreal, we safely, for want of better solution can translate the word s'unyata by relativity or contingency. This is in any case better than to translate it by "void" which signification the term has in common life, but not as a technical term in philosophy. That the term s'unya is, in Mahāyāna, a synonym of dependent existence (pratitya samutpada) and means not something void, but something "devoid" of independent reality (svabhāvas'unya) with the implication that nothing short of the whole possesses independent reality, and with the further implication that the whole forbids every formulation by concept or speech (f), since they can only bifurcate (vikalpa) reality and never directly seize it."1 Suzuki also explains the idea of Buddhistic negation or void in the following manner "Therefore, emptiness according to the Buddhists, signifies negatively, the absence of particularity, the nonexistence of individual as such, and positively, the ever changing state of the phenomenal world, a constant flux of becoming, an eternal series of causes and effects. S'unyata means conditionality or transitoriness of all phenomenal existences; synonym
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1 Stcherbatsky Th. The Conception of Buddhist Nirvana, pp. 42-43.