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'''Twenty kinds of [[emptiness]]''', (Tib. སྟོང་ཉིད་ཉི་ཤུ་, ''tongnyi nyishu''; [[Wyl.]] ''stong nyid nyi shu''),
according to [[Mipham Rinpoche]], ''[[Gateway to Knowledge]]'' [22:61 to 22:65]:
the above sixteen plus:
:17. emptiness of the concrete<br>
:18. emptiness of the inconcrete<br>
:19. emptiness of nature or of identity<br>
:20. emptiness of substance<br>


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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
  2. emptiness of the inner
  3. emptiness of the outer and inner
  4. great emptiness
  5. emptiness of the beginningless and endless
  6. emptiness of the conditioned
  7. emptiness of the unconditioned
  8. emptiness of emptiness
  9. emptiness beyond extremes
  10. natural emptiness
  11. emptiness of the unobserved
  12. ultimate emptiness
  13. emptiness of the indispensable
  14. emptiness of the essential nature of non-entities
  15. emptiness of all phenomena
  16. emptiness of specific characteristics
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