不ふ増ぞう不ふ減げん

noun

neither increase nor decrease; all things are void

Buddhist term expressing the idea that in ultimate reality nothing truly increases or decreases because all phenomena are empty (śūnyatā). Rare outside Buddhist contexts.

• 般はん若にゃ心しん経ぎょうには「不ふ増ぞう不ふ減げん」という言こと葉ばが出でてくる。

  The phrase 'neither increase nor decrease' appears in the Heart Sutra.