འཕགས་པ་ཤས་རབ་ཀྱ་ཕ་རལ་ཏ་ཕྱན་པ་ཀ་ཤ་ཀ་ཞས་བྱ་བ 3

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“Similarly, as the perfection of giving, the perfection of discipline, the perfection of patience, the perfection of effort, the perfection of concentration, the perfection of wisdom, the perfection of means, the perfection of aspiration, the perfection of power, and the perfection of gnosis²⁷ are purified of the three spheres and thus boundless, the perfection of wisdom is boundless.²⁸

²⁹“The so-called perfection of wisdom consists of eighteen kinds of emptiness. They are internal emptiness, external emptiness, internal and external emptiness, emptiness of emptiness, great emptiness, ultimate emptiness, emptiness of conditioned phenomena, emptiness of unconditioned phenomena, emptiness transcending extremes,³⁰ emptiness without beginning or end,³¹ emptiness of anything to be given up,³² emptiness of nature, emptiness of all phenomena,³³ emptiness of self-characteristics,³⁴ emptiness of nonapprehension,³⁵ emptiness of nonexistence, emptiness of essential nature, and emptiness of the essential nature of nonexistence.³⁶

“In short, such emptiness is called the perfection of wisdom.³⁷

“Like a star, a cataract, a lamp,
A magical illusion, a dew drop, a water bubble,
A dream, a flash of lightning, and a cloud³⁸—
View conditioned things in this way.³⁹

Oṁ namo bhagavatyai āryaprajñāpāramitāyai. Oṁ dhī hrī śrī śruti smṛti mati gati vijaye svāhā.⁴⁰

“Neither ceasing nor born,
Neither annihilated nor eternal,
Neither many nor one,
Neither coming nor going,

“Peaceful, because elaborations are pacified—
To the one who teaches this dependent origination,
To the perfect Buddha,
The best of speakers, I prostrate.”⁴¹ ⁴²

The Blessed One having spoken thus, Venerable Śāradvatīputra,⁴³ Śakra, the lord of the gods, and the monks, bodhisattvas, and the world with its gods, humans, asuras, and gandharvas⁴⁴ rejoiced and praised what the Blessed One had said.⁴⁵