Nagarjuna
Sign in to saveNāgārjuna (, ; ) was an Indian philosopher and Mahāyāna Buddhist monk of the Madhyamaka (Centrism, Middle Way) school. Nāgārjuna is widely considered one of the most important Buddhist philosophers. He was the founder of the Madhyamaka school of Buddhist philosophy and a defender of the Mahāyāna movement. His Mūlamadhyamakakārikā (Root Verses on Madhyamaka, MMK) is the most important text on the Madhyamaka philosophy of emptiness. The MMK inspired a large number of commentaries in Sanskrit, Chinese, Tibetan, Korean and Japanese and continues to be studied today.
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Nāgārjuna was an Indian Buddhist philosopher and monk who founded the Madhyamaka school of Buddhist thought, which emphasizes the concept of emptiness as a path to understanding reality. His major work, the Root Verses on Madhyamaka, became one of the most influential texts in Buddhist philosophy and continues to be studied and interpreted across multiple Asian traditions today.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 2nd cent.
- Died
- c. 250
- Works
- 40
Top works
- On generating the resolve to become a Buddha
- 大智度論
- 대지도론大智度論
- 十二門論講話
- 大智度論
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Article
25 sectionsContents
- History
- Background
- Life
- Traditional hagiography
- Other Nāgārjunas
- Works
- ''Mūlamadhyamakakārikā''
- Major attributed works
- Other attributed works
- Attributions which are likely to be false
- Philosophy
- Sunyata
- Two truths
- Causality
- Relativity
- Comparative philosophy
- Hinduism
- Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Pyrrhonism and its influence
- Other
- See also
- References
- Citations
- Sources
- External links
Nāgārjuna (, ; ) was an Indian philosopher and Mahāyāna Buddhist monk of the Madhyamaka (Centrism, Middle Way) school. Nāgārjuna is widely considered one of the most important Buddhist philosophers. He was the founder of the Madhyamaka school of Buddhist philosophy and a defender of the Mahāyāna movement. His Mūlamadhyamakakārikā (Root Verses on Madhyamaka, MMK) is the most important text on the Madhyamaka philosophy of emptiness. The MMK inspired a large number of commentaries in Sanskrit, Chinese, Tibetan, Korean and Japanese and continues to be studied today.
== History == thumb|right|A map of the Satavahana Kingdom, showing the location of Amaravathi, Guntur district|Amaravathi (where Nāgārjuna may have lived and worked according to Walser) and [[Vidarbha (the birthplace of Nāgārjuna according to Kumārajīva)]]