Lack of a hope

The voidness (emptiness) or total lack of truly existent results of any phenomenon; literally, the lack of any truly existent results that one could hope for from a phenomenon. One of the three gateways to liberation.

Tibetan: སྨོན་པ་མེད་པ། smon-pa med-pa

J. Hopkins: Wishlessness

Other languages

Deutsch: Fehlen von Hoffnung

Español: Falta de esperanza

Русский: Отсутствие надежды

Related terms

Dependent phenomena’s lack of essential nature as something that does not arise

Lack of a sign

Lack of an action’s affecting variables

Lack of hypocrisy

Lack of naivety

Lack of pretension

Thoroughly established phenomena’s lack of an essential nature of existing as ultimate

Three types of lack of essential nature

Totally conceptional phenomena’s lack of an essential nature of existing with defining characteristic marks