A History of Indian Literature v2.c19.s3.t2.3
A History of Indian Literature v2.c19.s3.t2.3
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² Suññata "void," *i.e.*, "devoid of independent reality." Here, as in a few other passages of the Pāli Canon, we already meet with the conception of the Void (śūnyatā), which in later times is the central idea of the philosophy of the Mahāyāna. Cf. C. A. F. *Rhys Davids*, A Buddhist Manual of Psychological Ethics, p. xlii f.