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<noinclude>'''Sixteen kinds of [[emptiness]]''', or ''shunyata'' (Skt. ''ṣoḍaśaśūnyatā''; Tib. སྟོང་ཉིད་བཅུ་དྲུག་, ''tongnyi chudruk''; [[Wyl.]] ''stong nyid bcu drug''), which are mentioned in [[Chandrakirti]]'s ''[[Madhyamakavatara]]'':
<noinclude>'''Sixteen kinds of [[emptiness]]''', or ''shunyata'' (Skt. ''ṣoḍaśaśūnyatā''; Tib. སྟོང་ཉིད་བཅུ་དྲུག་, ''tongnyi chudruk''; [[Wyl.]] ''stong nyid bcu drug''), which are mentioned in [[Chandrakirti]]'s ''[[Madhyamakavatara]]'':


</noinclude>#emptiness of the outer<br>
</noinclude>#emptiness of the outer (Tib. ཕྱི་སྟོང་པ་ཉིད་, ''chi tongpa nyi''; [[Wyl.]] ''phyi stong pa nyid'')<br>  
#emptiness of the inner<br>
#emptiness of the inner (Tib. ནང་སྟོང་པ་ཉིད་, ''nang tongpa nyi''; [[Wyl.]] ''nang stong pa nyid'')<br>
#emptiness of the outer and inner<br>
#emptiness of the outer and inner (Tib. ཕྱི་ནང་སྟོང་པ་ཉིད་, ''chi nang tongpa nyi''; [[Wyl.]] ''phyi nang stong pa nyid'')<br>
#great emptiness<br>
#great emptiness (Tib. ཆེན་པོ་སྟོང་པ་ཉིད་, ''chenpo tongpa nyi''; [[Wyl.]] ''chen po stong pa nyid'')<br>
#emptiness of the beginningless and endless<br>
#emptiness of the beginningless and endless (Tib. ཐོག་མ་དང་མཐའ་མ་མེད་པའི་སྟོང་པ་ཉིད་, ''tokma dang tama mepe tongpa nyi''; [[Wyl.]] ''thog ma dang mtha' ma med pa'i stong pa nyid'')<br>
#emptiness of the conditioned <br>
#emptiness of the conditioned (Tib. འདུས་བྱས་སྟོང་པ་ཉིད་, ''dü je tongpa nyi''; [[Wyl.]] '''dus byas stong pa nyid'')<br>
#emptiness of the unconditioned<br>
#emptiness of the unconditioned (Tib. འདུས་མ་བྱས་སྟོང་པ་ཉིད་, ''dü mache tongpa nyi''; [[Wyl.]] '''dus ma byas stong pa nyid '')<br>
#emptiness of emptiness<br>
#emptiness of emptiness (Tib. སྟོང་པ་ཉིད་སྟོང་པ་ཉིད་, ''tongpa nyi tongpa nyi''; [[Wyl.]] ''stong pa nyid stong pa nyid'')<br>
#emptiness beyond extremes <br>
#emptiness beyond extremes (Tib. མཐའ་ལས་འདས་པའི་སྟོང་པ་ཉིད་, ''tale depe tongpa nyi''; [[Wyl.]] ''mtha' las 'das pa'i stong pa nyid'')<br>
#natural emptiness<br>
#natural emptiness (Tib. རང་བཞིན་སྟོང་པ་ཉིད་, ''rangshin tongpa nyi''; [[Wyl.]] ''rang bzhin stong pa nyid'')<br>
#emptiness of the unobserved<br>
#emptiness of the unobserved (Tib. མཚན་ཉིད་མེད་པའི་སྟོང་པ་ཉིད་, ''tsennyi mepe tongpa nyi''; [[Wyl.]] ''mtshan nyid med pa'i stong pa nyid'')<br>
#ultimate emptiness<br>
#ultimate emptiness (Tib. ངོ་བོ་ཉིད་སྟོང་པ་ཉིད་, ''ngowo nyi tongpa nyi''; [[Wyl.]] ''ngo bo nyid stong pa nyid'')<br>
#emptiness of the indispensable<br>
#emptiness of the indispensable (Tib. དོར་བ་མེད་པའི་སྟོང་པ་ཉིད་, ''dorwa mepe tongpa nyi''; [[Wyl.]] ''dor ba med pa'i stong pa nyid'')<br>
#emptiness of the essential nature of non-entities<br>
#emptiness of the essential nature of non-entities (Tib. དངོས་པོ་མེད་པའི་ངོ་བོ་ཉིད་སྟོང་པ་ཉིད་, ''ngöpo mepe ngowo nyi tongpa nyi''; [[Wyl.]] ''dngos po med pa'i ngo bo nyid stong pa nyid'')<br>
#emptiness of all phenomena<br>
#emptiness of all phenomena (Tib. ཆོས་ཐམས་ཅད་སྟོང་པ་ཉིད་, ''chö tamche tongpa nyi''; [[Wyl.]] ''chos thams cad stong pa nyid'')<br>
#emptiness of specific characteristics<br><noinclude>
#emptiness of specific characteristics (Tib. མཚན་ཉིད་སྟོང་པ་ཉིད་, ''tsen nyi tongpa nyi''; [[Wyl.]] ''mtshan nyid stong pa nyid'')<br><noinclude>


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Sixteen kinds of emptiness, or shunyata (Skt. ṣoḍaśaśūnyatā; Tib. སྟོང་ཉིད་བཅུ་དྲུག་, tongnyi chudruk; Wyl. stong nyid bcu drug), which are mentioned in Chandrakirti's Madhyamakavatara:

  1. emptiness of the outer (Tib. ཕྱི་སྟོང་པ་ཉིད་, chi tongpa nyi; Wyl. phyi stong pa nyid)
  2. emptiness of the inner (Tib. ནང་སྟོང་པ་ཉིད་, nang tongpa nyi; Wyl. nang stong pa nyid)
  3. emptiness of the outer and inner (Tib. ཕྱི་ནང་སྟོང་པ་ཉིད་, chi nang tongpa nyi; Wyl. phyi nang stong pa nyid)
  4. great emptiness (Tib. ཆེན་པོ་སྟོང་པ་ཉིད་, chenpo tongpa nyi; Wyl. chen po stong pa nyid)
  5. emptiness of the beginningless and endless (Tib. ཐོག་མ་དང་མཐའ་མ་མེད་པའི་སྟོང་པ་ཉིད་, tokma dang tama mepe tongpa nyi; Wyl. thog ma dang mtha' ma med pa'i stong pa nyid)
  6. emptiness of the conditioned (Tib. འདུས་བྱས་སྟོང་པ་ཉིད་, dü je tongpa nyi; Wyl. 'dus byas stong pa nyid)
  7. emptiness of the unconditioned (Tib. འདུས་མ་བྱས་སྟོང་པ་ཉིད་, dü mache tongpa nyi; Wyl. 'dus ma byas stong pa nyid )
  8. emptiness of emptiness (Tib. སྟོང་པ་ཉིད་སྟོང་པ་ཉིད་, tongpa nyi tongpa nyi; Wyl. stong pa nyid stong pa nyid)
  9. emptiness beyond extremes (Tib. མཐའ་ལས་འདས་པའི་སྟོང་པ་ཉིད་, tale depe tongpa nyi; Wyl. mtha' las 'das pa'i stong pa nyid)
  10. natural emptiness (Tib. རང་བཞིན་སྟོང་པ་ཉིད་, rangshin tongpa nyi; Wyl. rang bzhin stong pa nyid)
  11. emptiness of the unobserved (Tib. མཚན་ཉིད་མེད་པའི་སྟོང་པ་ཉིད་, tsennyi mepe tongpa nyi; Wyl. mtshan nyid med pa'i stong pa nyid)
  12. ultimate emptiness (Tib. ངོ་བོ་ཉིད་སྟོང་པ་ཉིད་, ngowo nyi tongpa nyi; Wyl. ngo bo nyid stong pa nyid)
  13. emptiness of the indispensable (Tib. དོར་བ་མེད་པའི་སྟོང་པ་ཉིད་, dorwa mepe tongpa nyi; Wyl. dor ba med pa'i stong pa nyid)
  14. emptiness of the essential nature of non-entities (Tib. དངོས་པོ་མེད་པའི་ངོ་བོ་ཉིད་སྟོང་པ་ཉིད་, ngöpo mepe ngowo nyi tongpa nyi; Wyl. dngos po med pa'i ngo bo nyid stong pa nyid)
  15. emptiness of all phenomena (Tib. ཆོས་ཐམས་ཅད་སྟོང་པ་ཉིད་, chö tamche tongpa nyi; Wyl. chos thams cad stong pa nyid)
  16. emptiness of specific characteristics (Tib. མཚན་ཉིད་སྟོང་པ་ཉིད་, tsen nyi tongpa nyi; Wyl. mtshan nyid stong pa nyid)

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