84000 Glossary of Terms

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སྟོང་པ་ཉིད་བཅུ་དྲུག | Glossary of Terms

  • སྟོང་པ་ཉིད་བཅུ་དྲུག

  • stong pa nyid bcu drug
  • ṣoḍaśaśūnyatā
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  • sixteen emptinesses
  • སྟོང་པ་ཉིད་བཅུ་དྲུག
  • stong pa nyid bcu drug
  • ṣoḍaśaśūnyatā
Definition in this text:

Here the classical set of sixteen types of emptiness described in many Mahāyāna philosophical texts corresponds to a group of sixteen uṣṇīṣa buddhas. The sixteen are listed as (1) inner emptiness, (2) outer emptiness, (3) outer and inner emptiness, (4) the emptiness of emptiness, (5) ultimate emptiness, (6) the emptiness of compounded phenomena, (7) the emptiness of uncompounded phenomena, (8) beginningless and endless emptiness, (9) the emptiness of nonrejection, (10) natural emptiness, (11) the emptiness of all phenomena, (12) the emptiness of own-characteristics, (13) the emptiness of the unobserved, (14) the emptiness of nonentities, (15) the emptiness of own-essence, and (16) the emptiness of own-essence of nonentities.