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Saturday, December 10, 2022

Twenty Kinds of Emptiness


Translated from the Dharma Samgraha: An Ancient Collection of Buddhist Sanskrit Terms

     There are twenty emptinesses, they are:

Internal emptiness,

external emptiness,

internal and external emptiness,

emptiness of emptiness,

great emptiness,

ultimate emptiness,

emptiness of the conditioned,

emptiness of the unconditioned,

endless emptiness,

emptiness of the extremes,

emptiness without beginning or end,

natural emptiness,

emptiness of all things,

marked emptiness,

unmarked emptiness,

emptiness of existence,

emptiness of non-existence,

emptiness of self-existence,

emptiness of the self-existence of existence,

and emptiness of other-existence.