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The Mūlamadhyamakakārikā (Devanagari: मूलमध्यमककारिका, lit. 'Root Verses on the Middle Way'), abbreviated as MMK, is the foundational text of the Madhyamaka school of Mahāyāna Buddhist philosophy. It was composed by the Indian philosopher Nāgārjuna (around roughly 150 CE).
The Mūlamadhyamakakārikā (MMK) by Nāgārjuna (ca. 150 C.E.) is the foundational text of the Madhyamaka school of Indian Buddhist philosophy. It consists of verses constituting twenty-seven chapters.
Mūlamadhyamakakārikā, (Sanskrit: “Fundamentals of the Middle Way”), Buddhist text by Nāgārjuna, the exponent of the Mādhyamika (Middle Way) school of Mahāyāna Buddhism. It is a work that combines stringent logic and religious vision in a lucid presentation of the doctrine of ultimate “emptiness.”
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A key text by Nagarjuna, one of the most important Buddhist philosophers. It refutes various metaphysical categories and argues for the emptiness of all things, the identity of pratityasamutpada with śunyatā, and the indifferentiability of nirvāṇa from saṃsāra.
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Apr 22, 2013 · Winner of the 2014 Khyenste Foundation Translation Prize. Nagarjuna's renowned twenty-seven-chapter Fundamental Verses on the Middle Way (Mulamadhyamakakarika) is the foundational text of the...
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Feb 10, 2010 · A specific reading of Nāgārjuna’s thought, called Prāsaṅgika-Madhyamaka, became the official philosophical position of Tibetan Buddhism which regards it as the pinnacle of philosophical sophistication up to the present day. 1. Life and works. 2. Emptiness and svabhāva. 3. Arguments against svabhāva. 3.1 Causation. 3.1.1 Self-causation.
