Mahā śūnyatā
mahā ṡūnyatā (T. chen po stong pa nyid; C. dakong 大空).[1] Translated as "emptiness of the vast", "emptiness of that which is great", etc.[2] One of the sixteen types of emptiness.[2]
The emptiness of the space containing all domains, objects, and locations.[2]
The nature of world vessel (bhājanaloka) that encompasses the ten directions is emptiness (sunyata).
The Madhyamakāvatāra states:[3]
Since they pervade everything without exception—
All sentient beings and the whole universe,
And since the immeasurables are an example of their infinitude,
The directions are given the name “vast.” (187)
All these ten directions’ emptiness
Is the “emptiness of the vast.”
It was taught in order to reverse
Our clinging to the vast as being real. (188)
The Garland of Radiant Light states:
The natural emptiness of the fundamental abode, the world vessel (bhājanaloka) that encompasses the ten directions, is referred to as "emptiness of the great."[4]
Notes
- ↑ Buswell & Lopez 2014, s.v. Lists of Lists, "sixteen emptinesses".
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2
ཆེན་པོ་སྟོང་པ་ཉིད་, Christian-Steinert Dictionary
- ↑ Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso 2003, Appendix 3.
- ↑ Dharmachakra Translation Committee 2007, Chapter 1. The Characteristics, The Characteristics of Complete Purification.
Sources
Buswell, Robert E.; Lopez, Donald S. (2014), The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism, Princeton University
Dharmachakra Translation Committee (2007), Middle Beyond Extremes: Maitreya's Madhyantavibhaga with Commentaries by Khenpo Shenga and Ju Mipham, Snow Lion Publications- Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso (2003), The Sun of Wisdom, translated by Ari Goldfield, Shambhala