[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) › 66 # འཕགས་པ་དགངས་པ་ངས་པར་འགྲལ་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 66 English (machine translation) 66 - **Language:** English ### [66](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.samdhinirmocana*bo~en-mt.66) dispels with such śūnyatā. The nimitta of the immeasurable that comprehends the meaning of the basis is dispelled by great śūnyatā. The nimitta of the inner, peaceful liberation based on formlessness is dispelled by conditioned śūnyatā. The nimitta of selflessness of persons, the nimitta of selflessness of dharmas, the nimitta of mere vijñapti, and the ultimate nimitta that comprehend the meaning of the tathatā of character are dispelled by limitless śūnyatā, non-entity śūnyatā, nature of non-entity śūnyatā, and ultimate śūnyatā. The unconditioned nimitta and the unchangeable nimitta that comprehend the meaning of purified tathatā are dispelled by unconditioned śūnyatā and non-abandoning śūnyatā. The nimitta of śūnyatā that is the manaskāra of śūnyatā itself, which is the antidote to that nimitta, is dispelled by the śūnyatā of śūnyatā. / 'Bhagavān, when dispelling these ten kinds of nimittas, which nimitta is dispelled, and from the nimitta of what bond is one thoroughly liberated?' / 'Maitreya, it dispels the nimitta of the reflection that is the domain of samādhi, and it also dispels that by which one becomes thoroughly liberated from the nimitta of afflictive nimittas. Maitreya, one should know that these śūnyatās are, strictly speaking, the antidotes to those respective nimittas. It is not that each one is not the antidote to all nimittas. Maitreya, for example, just as ignorance does not fail to bring about afflictions up to old age and death, yet because it is the immediate and most proximate condition, it is taught strictly speaking to bring about saṃskāras; likewise, the principle here should be regarded in the same way. / 'Bhagavān, in the Mahā- - [Previous: 65](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.samdhinirmocana*bo~en-mt.65) - [Next: 67](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.samdhinirmocana*bo~en-mt.67) ## Translations (1) - [Unraveling the Intent](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.samdhinirmocana*bo~en-84000.66) — 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.66) — Classical Tibetan --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.samdhinirmocana*bo~en-mt.66](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.samdhinirmocana*bo~en-mt.66) · Pramāṇa