Timeline for Why is 空【くう】, and not 無【む】, used to define "void", "emptiness" in a buddhist context? What are their nuances?
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| Feb 16, 2018 at 16:18 | answer | added | user165850 | timeline score: 0 | |
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| Oct 25, 2016 at 1:23 | comment | added | Dave | @A.Ellett: indeed, it very likely does. Which is what I meant by a "more spiritual overtone" (e.g. omnipresent in zen koans). | |
| Oct 19, 2016 at 20:22 | comment | added | A.Ellett | The '無' on Yasujiro Ozu's grave, I would think, has more to do with the answer to the koan, "Does a dog have Buddha-nature?" than a direct reference to emptiness. | |
| Oct 19, 2016 at 16:16 | answer | added | Wuwo | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jul 2, 2011 at 16:03 | vote | accept | Dave | ||
| Jun 30, 2011 at 8:34 | comment | added | Kafka Fuura | Just as a side note, Japanese Buddhist terms are directly carried over from Chinese, so the choice of 空 over 無 may have to do more with what the original monks from India were thinking when translating Sanskrit to Chinese. Just a thought. | |
| Jun 30, 2011 at 6:26 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackJapanese/status/86319599242579968 | ||
| Jun 30, 2011 at 5:54 | comment | added | Dave | @Dave: see my updated link to meta and feel free to post your opinion over there. | |
| Jun 30, 2011 at 5:50 | history | edited | Dave | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 30, 2011 at 5:50 | answer | added | Questioner | timeline score: 20 | |
| Jun 30, 2011 at 5:45 | history | edited | Dave | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 30, 2011 at 5:22 | comment | added | Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams | Absence of anything is not necessarily nothing; even a void is something. | |
| Jun 30, 2011 at 5:02 | history | asked | Dave | CC BY-SA 3.0 |