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Mahayana Interpretation of Sunyata not different from Interpretation given in the Pali Nikayas

Mahayana Interpretation of Sunyata not different from Interpretation given in the Pali Nikayas. Comparsion with the Astasahasrika Prajnaparamita. Mahayana Interpretation.

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Mahayana Interpretation of Sunyata not different from Interpretation given in the Pali Nikayas

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  1. Mahayana Interpretation of Sunyata not different from Interpretation given in the Pali Nikayas Comparsion with the Astasahasrika Prajnaparamita

  2. Mahayana Interpretation • Mahayana interpretation of Sunyata applies to all Dharmas. By that way Mahayanists tried to bring forward Dharma Sunyata. Dharma Sunyata is the special focus of Mahayanists because Theravadins explained Pudgala Sunyata. This is the Theravada and Mahayana difference of views. But the Pali Nikayas do not have such difference. Pali Nikayasa explained Sunyata on the lines of Anatta doctrine.

  3. Mahayana Interpretation • Asta sahasrika prajnaparamita mentions “Sunya eva Bhagavan sarva dhamas’tathagatenakhyatah” (The Bhagavan, expressed all dharmas are sunya). By these words the nature of all Dharmas have Expressed. That is the Dharmata (nature of Dharmas). The nature of Dharma is Sunya and that is unexpressable. (Sa ca sarvadharmanam Dharmata anabhilaya). Here anabhilapya

  4. Mahayana Interpretation • Means cannot express by words. • If anything is sunya that has been mentioned as Aksaya ( Changeless, decay less). “If anything has been mentioned by the Buddha as Sunya that is limitless and decayless”. (Ye ca Subhute sunyah, aksaya api te. Ya ca sunyata aprameyata’pi sa- tasmat tarhi Subhute esam dharmanamartho viseso va nanakaranm va nopalabhyate). “If aything has been mentioned

  5. Mahayana Interpretation • By the Buddha as sunya that is limitless and decayless, if the manner of this there is no difference of meaning of these dharmas”. • This is exactly what mentioned in the Pali Nikayas. We can see how “Unconditioned Path has been explain the Samyutta Nikaya. • (S. IV.360). Katamo ca bhikkhave asankhatagami maggo? Sunnata samadhi, animitta samdhi, appanita samadhi. Ayam

  6. Mahayana Interpretation • Vuccati bhikkhae asankhatagami maggo”. • In order to achieve these attainments three modes of concentrations also have been mentioned. • Sunnatna samadhi – Anatta bhavana • Animitta samadhi –Anicca bhavana • Appanihita Samadhi – Dukkha Bhavana.

  7. Mahayana Inerpretation • Same sunnata has been explained in the sutta nipata atthaka vagga. • Sunnato lokam avekkhassu Moghraja sada sato Attanuditthin uhacca Evam maccutaro sia (Mogharaja, with ever mindfulness view the world as sunna. Remove the self-view ( when you look

  8. Mahayan Interpretation • At the world without the self view you can cross over Mara.). • In order to realize Sunyata the importance ofPrajna have been discussed in Prajnaparamita Literatur. In the Nikayas in order to realize Nibbana panna Has been mentioned as an necessary factor. One will be able to realize Nibbana through Panna.

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