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<noinclude>'''Sixteen kinds of [[emptiness]]''', or ''shunyata'' (Skt. ''ṣoḍaśaśūnyatā''; Tib. སྟོང་ཉིད་བཅུ་དྲུག་, ''tongnyi chudruk''; [[Wyl.]] ''stong nyid bcu drug''), which are mentioned in [[Chandrakirti]]'s ''[[Madhyamakavatara]]'':

</noinclude>#emptiness of the outer (Tib. [[ཕྱི་སྟོང་པ་ཉིད་]], ''chi tongpa nyi''; [[Wyl.]] ''phyi stong pa nyid'')<br> 
#emptiness of the inner (Tib. [[ནང་སྟོང་པ་ཉིད་]], ''nang tongpa nyi''; [[Wyl.]] ''nang stong pa nyid'')<br>
#emptiness of the outer and inner (Tib. [[ཕྱི་ནང་སྟོང་པ་ཉིད་]], ''chi nang tongpa nyi''; [[Wyl.]] ''phyi nang stong pa nyid'')<br>
#great emptiness (Tib. [[ཆེན་པོ་སྟོང་པ་ཉིད་]], ''chenpo tongpa nyi''; [[Wyl.]] ''chen po stong pa nyid'')<br>
#emptiness of the beginningless and endless (Tib. [[ཐོག་མ་དང་མཐའ་མ་མེད་པའི་སྟོང་པ་ཉིད་]], ''tokma dang tama mepe tongpa nyi''; [[Wyl.]] ''thog ma dang mtha' ma med pa'i stong pa nyid'')<br>
#emptiness of the [[conditioned]] (Tib. [[འདུས་བྱས་སྟོང་པ་ཉིད་]], ''dü je tongpa nyi''; [[Wyl.]] '''dus byas stong pa nyid'')<br>
#emptiness of the [[unconditioned]] (Tib. [[འདུས་མ་བྱས་སྟོང་པ་ཉིད་]], ''dü mache tongpa nyi''; [[Wyl.]] '''dus ma byas stong pa nyid '')<br>
#emptiness of emptiness (Tib. [[སྟོང་པ་ཉིད་སྟོང་པ་ཉིད་]], ''tongpa nyi tongpa nyi''; [[Wyl.]] ''stong pa nyid stong pa nyid'')<br>
#emptiness beyond extremes (Tib. [[མཐའ་ལས་འདས་པའི་སྟོང་པ་ཉིད་]], ''tale depe tongpa nyi''; [[Wyl.]] ''mtha' las 'das pa'i stong pa nyid'')<br>
#natural emptiness (Tib. [[རང་བཞིན་སྟོང་པ་ཉིད་]], ''rangshin tongpa nyi''; [[Wyl.]] ''rang bzhin stong pa nyid'')<br>
#emptiness of the unobserved (Tib. [[མཚན་ཉིད་མེད་པའི་སྟོང་པ་ཉིད]]་, ''tsennyi mepe tongpa nyi''; [[Wyl.]] ''mtshan nyid med pa'i stong pa nyid'')<br>
#ultimate emptiness (Tib. [[ངོ་བོ་ཉིད་སྟོང་པ་ཉིད་]], ''ngowo nyi tongpa nyi''; [[Wyl.]] ''ngo bo nyid stong pa nyid'')<br>
#emptiness of the indispensable (Tib. [[དོར་བ་མེད་པའི་སྟོང་པ་ཉིད་]], ''dorwa mepe tongpa nyi''; [[Wyl.]] ''dor ba med pa'i stong pa nyid'')<br>
#emptiness of the essential nature of non-entities (Tib. [[དངོས་པོ་མེད་པའི་ངོ་བོ་ཉིད་སྟོང་པ་ཉིད་]], ''ngöpo mepe ngowo nyi tongpa nyi''; [[Wyl.]] ''dngos po med pa'i ngo bo nyid stong pa nyid'')<br>
#emptiness of all phenomena (Tib. [[ཆོས་ཐམས་ཅད་སྟོང་པ་ཉིད་]], ''chö tamche tongpa nyi''; [[Wyl.]] ''chos thams cad stong pa nyid'')<br>
#emptiness of specific characteristics (Tib. [[མཚན་ཉིད་སྟོང་པ་ཉིད་]], ''tsen nyi tongpa nyi''; [[Wyl.]] ''mtshan nyid stong pa nyid'')<br><noinclude>

==Internal Links==
*[[eighteen kinds of emptiness]]
*[[twenty kinds of emptiness]]

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