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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]]'': | <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]]'': | ||
#emptiness of the outer<br> | </noinclude>#emptiness of the outer<br> | ||
#emptiness of the inner<br> | #emptiness of the inner<br> | ||
#emptiness of the outer and inner<br> | #emptiness of the outer and inner<br> | ||
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#emptiness of the essential nature of non-entities<br> | #emptiness of the essential nature of non-entities<br> | ||
#emptiness of all phenomena<br> | #emptiness of all phenomena<br> | ||
#emptiness of specific characteristics<br> | #emptiness of specific characteristics<br><noinclude> | ||
'''Twenty kinds of [[emptiness]]''', (Tib. སྟོང་ཉིད་ཉི་ཤུ་, ''tongnyi nyishu''; [[Wyl.]] ''stong nyid nyi shu''), | '''Twenty kinds of [[emptiness]]''', (Tib. སྟོང་ཉིད་ཉི་ཤུ་, ''tongnyi nyishu''; [[Wyl.]] ''stong nyid nyi shu''), | ||
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[[Category:Madhyamika]] | [[Category:Madhyamika]] | ||
[[Category:Enumerations]] | [[Category:Enumerations]] | ||
[[Category:16-Sixteen]] | [[Category:16-Sixteen]]</noinclude> | ||
Revision as of 18:09, 14 February 2011
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:
- emptiness of the outer
- emptiness of the inner
- emptiness of the outer and inner
- great emptiness
- emptiness of the beginningless and endless
- emptiness of the conditioned
- emptiness of the unconditioned
- emptiness of emptiness
- emptiness beyond extremes
- natural emptiness
- emptiness of the unobserved
- ultimate emptiness
- emptiness of the indispensable
- emptiness of the essential nature of non-entities
- emptiness of all phenomena
- emptiness of specific characteristics
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
- 18. emptiness of the inconcrete
- 19. emptiness of nature or of identity
- 20. emptiness of substance