created sense approved 不空 · bùkōng · Amoghavajra — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"
不空
bùkōng
Amoghavajra
A high monk and one of the four great translators of Buddhist sutras in the Tang Dynasty; an Indian or Sri Lankan native who traveled to China to spread Esoteric Buddhism and was posthumously awarded high official titles for his contributions to religious and linguistic studies.
不 (phonetic) 空 (phonetic)
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created sense approved 不空 · bùkōng · not empty — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"
不空
bùkōng
not empty
not vacant or hollow; in Buddhist philosophy, the concept that the true nature of reality is not a mere void (Sanskrit: abhuññatā)
不 (literal) → 不 · bù · not 空 (literal) → 空 · kōng · emptiness
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