Eighteen types of emptiness
eighteen types of emptiness (astaadasa sunyata):
1) emptiness of the internal (adhyatma sunyata);
2) emptiness of the external (bahirdha sunyata);
3) emptiness of the internal and the external (adhyamabahirdha sunyata);
4) emptiness of emptiness (sunyata sunyata);
5) emptiness of the great (maha sunyata);
6) emptiness of the ultimate (paramartha sunyata);
7) emptiness of compounded phenomena (samskrta sunyata);
8) emptiness of uncompounded phenomena (asamskrta sunyata);
9) emptiness of what has passed beyond the extremes (atyanta sunyata);
10) emptiness of what is beginningless and endless (anavaragra sunyata);
11) (emptiness of the indestructible anavakara sunyata);
12) emptiness of nature (prakrti sunyata);
13) emptiness of all phenomena (sarvadharma sunyata);
14) emptiness of definitions (svalaksana sunyata);
15) emptiness of the unapprehendable (anupalambha sunyata);
16) emptiness of non-things (abhava sunyata);
17) emptiness of its own entityness (svabhava sunyata) and
18) emptiness of the inherent existence of non-things (abhavasvabhava sunyata).
