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མཁས་པའི་ཡོ་བྱད།

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One term, three languages

Each entry records how a term is rendered, where it appears, and how translators have understood it.

Term

emptiness

Tibetan
སྟོང་པ་ཉིད།
Wylie
stong pa nyid
Sanskrit
śūnyatā

The absence of inherent, independent existence in all phenomena. Appears in 1,200+ passages across the published translations.