法華義疏 8.76

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8.76

It is alternately called ultimate emptiness, or the great nirvāṇa, or the path of all buddhas. Moreover, the 'Chapter on Refuting Nirvāṇa' in the Madhyamakaśāstra specifically refutes four kinds of nirvāṇa: first, refuting that existence is nirvāṇa; second, refuting that emptiness is nirvāṇa; third, refuting both emptiness and existence; and fourth, refuting neither emptiness nor existence. It then concludes by saying: 'Nirvāṇa is cut off from the four propositions and transcends the hundred negations; not knowing how to name it, it is provisionally designated as emptiness.'

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