Lack of a sign

The voidness or total lack of truly existent causes for any phenomenon; literally, the lack of any sign of truly existent causes from which a phenomenon arose. One of the three gateways to liberation.

Tibetan: མཚན་མ་མེད་པ། mtshan-ma med-pa

J. Hopkins: Signlessness

Other languages

Deutsch: Fehlen von Anzeichen

Español: Falta de un signo

Русский: Отсутствие знака

Related terms

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

Lack of a hope

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