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Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Identify the Buddhist scripture that forms the foundation of the Mahayana belief of “emptiness".
A
Zen
B
Seng-ts’an
C
Heart Sutra
D
Bodhi Tree
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Emptiness is Form refers to a Buddhist text called the Heart Sutra, which is the distillation of all teachings on Emptiness. Emptiness in Buddhism refers not to nothingness, but to the opposite: the interdependence of all phenomena, both mental and physical.

Detailed explanation-2: -’Emptiness’ or ‘voidness’ is an expression used in Buddhist thought primarily to mark a distinction between the way things appear to be and the way they actually are, together with attendant attitudes which are held to be spiritually beneficial.

Detailed explanation-3: -form is emptiness and the very emptiness is form; emptiness does not differ from form, form does not differ from emptiness, whatever is emptiness, that is form, the same is true of feelings, perceptions, impulses, and consciousness.

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