[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Buddhist Sanskrit literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit) › [Mahāyāna sūtras](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra) › [Saṃdhinirmocanasūtra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.samdhinirmocana) › [འཕགས་པ་དགོངས་པ་ངེས་པར་འགྲེལ་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.samdhinirmocana*bo) › [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.samdhinirmocana*bo~en-mt) › 34 # འཕགས་པ་དགངས་པ་ངས་པར་འགྲལ་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 34 English (machine translation) 34 - **Language:** English ### [34](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.samdhinirmocana*bo~en-mt.34) \[just as space is characterised by mere absence of form and is all-pervading, so too, Paramārthasamudgata,\] having in mind that the ultimate characterlessness is characterised by the selflessness of dharmas, I taught: 'All dharmas are unborn, unceasing, peaceful from the beginning, and by nature in nirvāṇa.' Why is that? Because the ultimate characterlessness characterised by the selflessness of dharmas always and forever abides, and as the dharmatā of dharmas it is unconditioned and free from all kleśas. That which always and forever abides as that very dharmatā and is unconditioned—because it is unconditioned, it is unborn and unceasing; and because it is free from all kleśas, it is peaceful from the beginning and by nature in nirvāṇa. Therefore, having in mind that the ultimate characterlessness is characterised by the selflessness of dharmas, I taught: 'All dharmas are unborn, unceasing, peaceful from the beginning, and by nature in nirvāṇa.' Furthermore, Paramārthasamudgata, if sentient beings in the realm of sentient beings saw the imaginary nature as distinct in essence, and also saw the dependent nature and the consummate nature as distinct in essence, I would not posit the three kinds of characterlessness. But because sentient beings superimpose the imaginary nature onto the dependent and the consummate natures, they apply the conventional designation of the imaginary nature's mark onto the dependent and consummate natures. In whatever way they apply that conventional designation, through the mind thoroughly perfumed by that applied designation, they connect with that designation, or through the latency of that designation they cling to the dependent and the consummate natures as the mark of the imaginary - [Previous: 33](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.samdhinirmocana*bo~en-mt.33) - [Next: 35](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.samdhinirmocana*bo~en-mt.35) ## Translations (1) - [Unraveling the Intent](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.samdhinirmocana*bo~en-84000.34) — Gregory Forgues, English ## Linked texts (1) - [འཕགས་པ་དགོངས་པ་ངེས་པར་འགྲེལ་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.samdhinirmocana*bo.34) — Classical Tibetan --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.samdhinirmocana*bo~en-mt.34](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.samdhinirmocana*bo~en-mt.34) · Pramāṇa