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Definition of Suchness
1. essential or characteristic quality [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Suchness
Literary usage of Suchness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Açvaghosha's Discourse on the awakening of faith in the Mahâyâna by Aśvaghoṣa, Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki (1900)
"Ignorance ftl W wu ming, avidya, a state of suchness in its evolution ; practically
the same as birth-and-death. Intellectual hindrance Jjf? ..."
2. Outlines of Mahaŷâna Buddhism by Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki (1907)
"As Buddhism does not separate being from thought nor thought from being, what is
suchness in the objective world, is transcendental truth in the subjective ..."
3. The Monist by Hegeler Institute (1919)
"Thus to the Buddhist, pre-particular suchness is like a little child ...
Particular suchness is the man of the world battling with the odds of life. ..."
4. Indian Theism from the Vedic to the Muhammadan Period by Nicol Macnicol (1915)
"... of suchness' in the passage quoted above is the attainment of such a reality.
The practical aspect of this doctrine corresponds to the ..."
5. Sermons of a Buddhist Abbot: Addresses on Religious Subjects by Soyen Shaku, Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki (1906)
"... but we as rational beings need some words to express ourselves, and for that
purpose the term 'suchness' has been selected, disposing of all others. ..."