Rather, the Sanksrit word for nothingness, "sunyata," is derived from a term meaning "to swell" (quoted in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blake, Heidegger, Buddhism, and Deep Ecology: A Fourfold Perspective on Humanity's Relationship to Nature] Reference

For the Asian landscape painter, the reed is not just a “reed,” but an expression of the beauty, spontaneity, and mystery of the void sunyata.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why I am Not a Pantheist (Nor a Panentheist): Metaphysics, Totalization, and the Cosmos By Jonathan Weidenbaum] Reference

The purpose here is not really to describe sunyata, something doomed to failure from the beginning, but rather to help people discover the saving truth of their own true nature.    From Wordnik.com.  [UUpdates - All updates] Reference

At least since Nagarjuna the understanding that sunyata and things (read in addition to everything else in the cosmos, very much you and me ...) are identical has been a soteriological assertion.    From Wordnik.com.  [UUpdates - All updates] Reference

(By the bye, in this text, which I highly recommend as a deeper exposition of the term and what it means in the forms of Buddhism within which I practice, sunyata is usually rendered as "nothingness" and "absolute nothingness.").    From Wordnik.com.  [UUpdates - All updates] Reference

But that just begins the exploration of sunyata.    From Wordnik.com.  [UUpdates - All updates] Reference

"boundless" and "boundlessness" for sunyata.    From Wordnik.com.  [UUpdates - All updates] Reference

The preferred English for sunyata is usually "empty" or "emptiness.".    From Wordnik.com.  [UUpdates - All updates] Reference