[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [般若波羅蜜多心經幽贊](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1710) › 2.31 # 般若波羅蜜多心經幽贊 2.31 般若波羅蜜多心經幽贊 2.31 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [2.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1710.2.31) 由此二句，經作是言，「色自性空，非色滅空」。如應者言，若依勝義，諸法皆空都無有者，初雖可爾，理未必然。真、俗相形，俗無真滅；色、空相待，色滅空亡；故非本來色體空也。勝空者言，據實此空非空、不空，翻迷對色悟說色空，非此空言即定為空，空亦空故。 > By virtue of these two lines, the sūtra speaks thus: 'Form is empty by its own nature; it is not empty through the destruction of form.' The proponent of conforming \[teaching\] says: 'If, according to paramārtha-satya, all phenomena are completely empty and nonexistent, this may initially seem acceptable, but logically it is not necessarily so. Ultimate and conventional mutually delineate one another: when the conventional is absent, the ultimate is destroyed. Form and emptiness are mutually dependent: when form is destroyed, emptiness perishes. Hence the substance of form is not originally empty.' The proponent of supreme emptiness says: 'In reality, this emptiness is neither empty nor non-empty; inverting delusion and confronting form, awakening speaks of form being empty. It is not that this word "emptiness" is definitively empty, because emptiness is also empty.' > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 2.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1710.2.30) - [Next: 2.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1710.2.32) - [Up: 2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1710.2) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1710~en-mt.2.31) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1710.2.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1710.2.31) · Pramāṇa