The Indian Buddhist Iconography, Mainly Based on the Sadhanamala and Other Cognate Tantric Texts of Rituals c25.87
The Indian Buddhist Iconography, Mainly Based on the Sādhanamālā and Other Cognate Tāntric Texts of Rituals c25.87
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c25.87
Śūnya, translated as ‘Void’ in the absence of a suitable and more expressive word. It signifies a state of the mind after Nirvāṇa, about which neither existence, nor non-existence, nor a combination of the two, nor a negation of the two can be predicated. This Śūnya in Vajrayāna is identified with Compassion which transforms itself in the form of divinities, of the nature of Śūnya, for the welfare and happiness of men. In Vajrayāna Śūnya is the Prime Cause of all manifestation.