The correspondence between emptiness, dependent origination, and Nirvāna in early Buddhist Literature
International Journal of Development Research
The correspondence between emptiness, dependent origination, and Nirvāna in early Buddhist Literature
Received 17th April, 2023; Received in revised form 14th May, 2023; Accepted 06th June, 2023; Published online 28th July, 2023
Copyright©2023, Nguyen Thi Hanh. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Śūnyatā has been one of the central themes in the large corpus of the teachings of the Buddha. Furthermore, it is presented in various ways in different discourses of Buddhist Sūtras, giving one the freedom to interpret its intended connotative meaning. This research, therefore, aims to look deeper into the correspondence between the concepts of Dependent Origination, Nirvāna, and Emptiness on the model of a comparative study of the Pāli and Chinese texts. Because if the researcher considers and emphasizes the Pāli sources without comparing them to the Chinese version, then one is studying Pāli Buddhism, not early Buddhism. For studying early Buddhism, paying attention to both the Pāli and Chinese versions of the early canon is essential.
