Nāgārjuna

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Acharya Nāgārjuna (Devanagari:नागार्जुन, Tibetan: ཀླུ་སྒྲུབ་ klu sgrub, Chinese: 龍樹) (ca. 150–250 CE) was an Indian philosopher who founded the Madhyamaka school of Mahāyāna Buddhism. His writings are the basis for the formation of the Madhyamaka school, which was transmitted to China under the name of the Three Treatise (Sanlun) School. He is credited with developing the philosophy of the Prajnaparamita sutras, and was closely associated with the Buddhist university of Nalanda. In the Jodo Shinshu branch of Buddhism, he is considered the First Patriarch. Little is known about the actual life of the historical Nagarjuna. The two most extensive biographies of Nagarjuna, one in Chinese and the other in Tibetan, were written many centuries after his life and incorporate material seen by some as historically unreliable. Nagarjuna was born a Brahmin, which in his time connoted religious allegiance to the Vedas, probably into an upper-caste Brahmin family and probably in the southern Andhra region of India.

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Nagarjuna's Middle way
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The dispeller of disputes
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Mūlamadhyamakakārikā
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Suhr̥llekha
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Ratnāvalī
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In Praise of Dharmadhatu
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Nagarjuna's Letter to a Friend
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Nāgārjunīyā Mūlamadhyamakakārikā Prajñā nāma =
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Ācāryanāgārjunapraṇītā saṭīkā Āryaśālistambakakārikā
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Fundamentos de la via media
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Le Livre de la chance
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Nagarjuna's Letter
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On Voidness
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Stances du milieu par excellence
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Verses from the Center
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Conseils au roi
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A Study of Nagarjuna's Twenty Verses on the Great Vehicle (Mahayanavimsika) and His Verses on the Heart of Dependent Origination: (Pratityasamutpadahrdayakarika) ... (Toronto Studies in Religion)
Representative edition published 2000
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Buddizm Nagardzhuny
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Prajñādaṇḍa
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Nagarjuna's Seventy Stanzas
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Traité du milieu
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Die Philosophie der Leere
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Master of Wisdom
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Vaidalyaprakaraṇa
Representative edition published 1995
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