The Buddha nature and emptiness in the Mahayanist Nirvāṇa-sūtra

• Authors: Strelkova Anastasiia

Title variants

UK

Природа Будди та порожнеча в магаянській «Нірвана-сутрі»

• Languages of publication: UK

Abstracts

EN

The article deals with the relationship between the concepts of ‘emptiness’ and ‘Buddhа nature’ (佛性) as exposed in the Mahayanist Nirvāṇa-sūtra. On the basis of citations from the original text it is shown that according to the teaching of Nirvāṇa-sūtra to follow the middle way leading to nirvāṇa it is necessary to understand not only the ‘emptiness’ of illusions 空 (śūnyatā), but also the ‘emptiness’ of the true reality — which is the emptiness-ākāśa (虚空) or the ‘emptiness of first meaning’, ‘ultimate emptiness’(第一義空), being the only possible way of existence of the true reality or, in other words, of the Buddha nature (佛性).

Keywords

EN

Buddhism, śūnyatā, emptiness, Buddha nature, middle way, Nirvāṇa-sūtra

• Publisher: G.S. Skovoroda Institute of Philosophy, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
• Journal: Філософська Думка
• Year: 2012
• Issue: 6
• Pages: 81-93

Contributors

author

Strelkova Anastasiia