Nishitani writes as follows: On the one hand, śūnyatā or emptiness can be termed "an absolute negativity, inasmuch as it is a standpoint that has negated and thereby transcended nihility, which was itself the transcendence-through-negation of all being".
Nishida did use the language of transcendence to explain absolute nothingness, saying it transcended the opposition between being and non-being for example; but such language did not indicate any thing, power, or consciousness beyond the world.
Even so comedy scenes such as Del boy's 'falling through the bar' or 'the chandelier repair' transcended any language barrier".
If this clone culture does represent a kind of triumphalism – a way for China to show it has equalled, and perhaps even transcended, the west's achievements – should we be worried?
Christopher Shinn, a playwright who had a below-the-knee amputation, describes the act of watching a disabled character being played by an actor who we know is really fit and well as allowing society's "fear and loathing around disability" to be "magically transcended".
For Muslims, by contrast, God transcended all categories and was therefore subject to no such limit.Benedict quoted, without endorsing, the words of a Byzantine emperor who declared that Islam's prophet had brought into the world "things only bad and inhumane, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached".
After decades of political struggle, he has transcended politics.
Newspapers devoted pages to her life and death-not just the tabloids, which did so in her lifetime, but serious journals (including this one) that didn't.As with newspapers so with the people: the outpouring of grief transcended social divisions.
By forming healthy friendships with many of the people he publicly disagreed with, he transcended his office as New York's top Catholic and became a figure who will be much missed by people of all faiths and none.
But the bigger reason, in Cassandra's view, is that Ali transcended his sport: he defied his government over the Vietnam war, saying he would refuse to be drafted ("I ain't got no quarrel with them Viet Cong ... They never called me nigger").; and he converted to the Nation of Islam, which advocated black separatism (Ali later became a conventional Sunni Muslim).
Starting as an uprising that transcended sect, the Syrian conflict has taken on an increasingly sectarian hue thanks to the Sunni Gulf states' support for the rebels and to the backing of Bashar Assad's regime by Iran's Shia leadership and more relevant to Lebanon by Hizbullah.
