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十空

Pronunciations

Basic Meaning: ten kinds of emptiness

Senses:

  • In the Brahmāʼs Net Sutra, they are: internal emptiness 內空, external emptiness 外空, conditioned emptiness 有爲空, the unconditioned emptiness 無爲空, emptiness of nature 性空, beginningless emptiness 無始空, emptiness of the ultimate truth 第一義空, the emptiness of emptiness 空空, emptiness of emptiness as again empty 空空復空, emptiness of emptiness as again empty of emptiness 空空復空空. 〔梵網經 T 1484.24.1002b8; 梵網經古迹記 HBJ 3.439a15; T 1815.40.698b12〕 [Charles Muller]
  • In the Abhidharma-mahāvibhāṣā-śāstra they are internal emptiness 內空, external emptiness 外空, internal and external emptiness 內外空, conditioned emptiness 有爲空, unconditioned emptiness 無爲空, emptiness of disintegration 散壞空, emptiness of original nature 本性空, emptiness of nondelimitation 無際空, ultimate emptiness 勝義空, and emptiness of emptiness 空空. [Charles Muller; source(s): FGD]
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    [Dictionary References]

    Dai kanwa jiten Vol. 2, p. 1566

    Bukkyō daijiten (Mochizuki) (v.1-6)636a

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    Entry created: 2011-04-15