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Emptiness

śūnyatā
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Emptiness; the absence of inherent existence (not a container).

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Passages where śūnyatā occurs literally — in the original, and, where a German translation of the same lines exists, in German.

  • Mahāyāna sūtras · Mūlamadhyamakakārikā · Sanskrit Primary passage

    śūnyatā sarvadṛṣṭīnāṃ proktā niḥsaraṇaṃ jinaiḥ / yeṣāṃ tu śūnyatādṛṣṭis tān asādhyān babhāṣire // MMK_13.8 //

  • Mahāyāna sūtras · Mūlamadhyamakakārikā · Sanskrit Primary passage

    śūnyatā ca na cocchedaḥ saṃsāraś ca na śāśvatam / karmaṇo 'vipraṇāśaś ca dharmo buddhena deśitaḥ // MMK_17.20 //

  • Nyingma treasure texts · Chimé Pakmé Nyingtik · English

    You should make the visualization and your recitation match one another throughout: ཨོཾ་མ་ཧཱ་ཤཱུ་ནྱ་ཏཱ་ཛྙཱ་ན་བཛྲ་སྭ་བྷཱ་ཝ་ཨཏྨ་ཀོ྅་ཧཾ༔ om maha shunyata jnana benza sobhava emako hang oṃ mahā-śūnyatā-jñāna-vajra-svabhāvātmako ’ham འཁོར་འདས་ཆོས་ཀུན་གཟོད་མ་ནས༔ khordé chö kün zöma né All things in saṃsāra and nirvāṇa are primordially འོད་གསལ་དེ་བཞིན་ཉིད་དབྱིངས་ལས༔ ösal dezhin nyi ying lé Clear light and the space of suchness.

  • Lojong · Commentary on the Seven Points · English

    As Langri Thangpa said: No matter which profound Dharma texts I consult, I find the message is the same: all faults are one s own and all qualities belong to brother and sister sentient beings. Given this crucial point, the only conclusion is that we must give all profit and victory to others and take all loss and defeat upon ourselves. Transforming Adversity into the Path of Enlightenment through Ultimate Bodhicitta The root text says: Meditating on delusory perceptions as the four kāyas Is the unsurpassable śūnyatā protection.

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