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Svabhava (Sanskrit: स्वभाव,
svabhāva; Pali: सभाव, sabhāva; Chinese: 自性; pinyin: zìxìng; Tibetan: རང་བཞིན, Wylie: rang-bzhin)
literally means "own-being"...
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concept of
svabhāva,
though he
interprets it as
being based on
causal powers. For Dharmakirti, the
essential nature (or ‘nature-
svabhāva’) is: “The arising...
- non-existent; only that they are
devoid of a
permanent and
eternal substance (
svabhava) because, like a dream, they are mere
projections of
human consciousness...
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known as Śūnyavāda ("the
emptiness doctrine") and Niḥsvabhāvavāda ("the no
svabhāva doctrine"),
refers to a
tradition of
Buddhist philosophy and
practice founded...
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While there is
another kind of
svabhava that is a pure
internal quality –
smarana – we are here
focusing only on the
svabhava that was
created due to samskaras...
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reductio arguments to show how all
phenomena (dharmas) are
empty of
svabhava (which has been
variously translated as essence, own-being, or inherent...
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which states that all
phenomena lack a
fixed and
independent essence (
svabhava). To
avoid any
reification which grasps at essences, Zen
sources often...
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emptiness is the view
which holds that all
phenomena are
without any
svabhava (literally "own-nature" or "self-nature"), and are thus
without any underlying...
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dharma (i.e.
svabhāva, "intrinsic nature", or dravya, "substance") is one and the same. For the Vaibhāṣika school, this "own nature" (
svabhāva) was said...
- the
tenet that "all
things are
empty of
intrinsic existence and
nature (
svabhava)", but may also
refer to the Buddha-nature
teachings and
primordial or...
