New Books in Buddhist Studies

Nothing Matters: About the Idea of "Emptiness"


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Between the Buddhist doctrine of ‘emptiness,’ the Jewish idea of Ayin, and the quantum mechanical zero-point energy of a vacuum, it turns out there’s quite a lot to be said about Nothing.

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  • Janet Gyatso, Professor of Buddhist Studies at Harvard Divinity School
  • Daniel Matt, Scholar of Jewish Mysticism
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