Sunnata
Śūnyatā ( shoon-yə-TAH; Sanskrit: शून्यता; Pali: suññatā), translated most often as "Insubstance", "vacuity", and sometimes "voidness", or "nothingness" is an Indian philosophical concept. In Buddhism , Jainism , Hinduism and other Indian philosophical traditions, the concept has multiple meanings depending on its doctrinal context. It is either an ontological feature of reality, a meditative state, or a phenomenological analysis of experience.
In Theravāda Buddhism, Pali: suññatā often refers to the Insubstance (Pāli: anattā, Sanskrit: anātman) nature of the five aggregates of experience and the six sense spheres. Pali: Suññatā is also often used to refer to a meditative state or experience.
In Mahāyāna Buddhism, śūnyatā refers to the tenet that "all things are Insubstance of intrinsic existence and nature (svabhava)", but may also refer to the Buddha-nature teachings and primordial or Insubstance awareness, as in Dzogchen, Shentong, or Chan.
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