Tsongkhapa · Theology

Emptiness Is Not Nothing

Tsongkhapa's subtlest teaching: to realize that things are empty of intrinsic existence is not to deny them but to understand how they exist - dependently. Emptiness and dependent-arising are two sides of one truth, and the great error is to negate too much or too little.

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You learned that Tsongkhapa read emptiness as the absence of intrinsic or independent existence ( svabhava ), not the absence of existence itself, that emptiness and dependent-arising are for him mutually implying (things are empty because they arise dependently), that he stressed identifying precisely the ‘obje…

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