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Śūnyatā (/ʃuːnˈjɑːtɑː/ shoon-YAH-tah; Sanskrit: शून्यता, romanized: śūnyatā; Pali: suññatā), translated most often as "emptiness",...

Abhidharma Literally meaning “higher knowledge,” Abhidharma refers to a collection of Buddhist scriptures that pertain to psychology,...

The argument and thought-experiment now generally known as the Chinese Room Argument was first published in a 1980 article by American...

3rd times the charm Based on a consultation of the trilateral contact group on joint steps aimed at implementation of a ceasefire plan for...

This article is about the philosophy. For an extremely unreasonable, silly, or foolish thing, see Absurdity. For absurdist humour, see...

n essence, the short text entitled Eight Verses on Training the Mind presents the practices of cultivating both conventional bodhicitta, or...

Also known as "meat space" to differentiate it from cyberspace and regular space, which is a vacuum. “How can this chair be a chair and also...

Higher training in morality, in meditation, and in wisdom. The teaching on the Four Noble Truths, which was the Buddha’s first teaching...

Self-awareness is ranked as Level 5 information integration and above according to the following criteria: Level 0 – Inanimate Objects Pain...

In Buddhism, one speaks of three different levels of understanding, which are sequential—an understanding arrived at through learning and...

When we use such terms as “consciousness” or “mind” it often tends to give the impression that we are talking about a single, monolithic...

A key principle here is dependent origination. This fundamental principle of Buddhism states that everything arises and ceases in dependence...

Let us return to our discussion of the Buddhist view that all experiences and things come into existence in dependence upon causes and...