Emptiness

An analysis of static phenomena, which are validly knowable and unaffected by causes and circumstances, and nonstatic phenomena, which are impermanent, changing from moment to moment.

According to the Sautrantika tenet system, there are seven ways of knowing an object. To understand the seven in more detail, we first need to know what a way of knowing (“lorig” in Tibetan) is.

The non-conceptual understanding of voidness will stop the tainted aggregates from uncontrollably recurring. 

Aryadeva’s treatise discusses how to build up the positive potential for understanding voidness and how to gain correct cognition of the deepest truth.

How cognition of voidness liberates us from uncontrollably recurring samsaric rebirth is not a simple or speedy process.

Tsenshap Serkong Rinpoche provides a deep analysis of the first few verses of the ninth chapter, “Discriminating Awareness,” from “Engaging in Bodhisattva Behavior.”

Presentation of the debate between Jetsunpa and Panchen on the topic of true stoppings and voidnesses on the sutra level.

Learn why Study Buddhism prefers the term “voidness” over “emptiness.”

An overview of the Gelug presentation and some of its ramifications concerning the view of valid cognition.