<Ul> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> </Ul> <P> Śūnyatā (Sanskrit; Pali: suññatā), pronounced' shoonyataa', translated into English most often as emptiness and sometimes voidness, is a Buddhist concept which has multiple meanings depending on its doctrinal context . It is either an ontological feature of reality, a meditation state, or a phenomenological analysis of experience . </P> <P> In Theravada Buddhism, suññatā often refers to the not - self (Pāli: anattā, Sanskrit: anātman) nature of the five aggregates of experience and the six sense spheres . Suññatā is also often used to refer to a meditative state or experience . </P> <P> In Mahayana, Sunyata refers to the tenet that "all things are empty of intrinsic existence and nature," but may also refer to the Buddha - nature teachings and primordial or empty awareness, as in Dzogchen and Shentong . </P>

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