（1） Sky， space. （2） 'emptiness'， 'non-existence'， 'voidness.' （/su^nyata^， /su^nya）; The opposite of 有--the negation of existence. As the rejection by the Buddha of this 'emptiness' being simply the mistaken view of 'nothingness' 虚无， this basic Buddhist teaching of emptiness is the negation of the two mistaken views of the acceptance of the real existence of a self 我， and the understanding of an eternal nature of the compositional elements （法） that make up the world or the self. Therefore， it is an 'emptiness of self and dharmas.' Among Hinayanists the Satyasiddhi sect 成实宗 and in Maha^ya^na teachings the Ma^dhyamika 中观派 and others strongly emphasized this teaching. Among the sutras， the Prajn~a^pa^ramita^ sutras all especially emphasize this teaching. Among the various understandings of emptiness are 'analytical emptiness' and 'essential emptiness'， as well as 'only emptiness' and 'not-only-emptiness' and so forth. As the teaching of emptiness is originally for the destruction of the attachment to false view， there is also the meaning of 'becoming empty'--to break attachment.