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Chandrakirti (IAST: Candrakīrti; traditional Chinese: 月稱; c. 600 – c. 650, meaning "glory of the moon" in Sanskrit) or "Chandra" was a Buddhist scholar of the Madhyamaka school and a noted commentator on the works of Nagarjuna (c. 150 – c. 250 CE) and those of his main disciple, Aryadeva.
Candrakīrti [alt. Chandrakirti] (T.. zla ba grags pa ཟླ་བ་གྲགས་པ་; C. Yuèchēng 月稱) (c. 600 – c. 650) was an Indian scholar who wrote commentaries on the works of Nagarjuna and his main disciple, Aryadeva.
Chandrakirti, a brilliant scholar and advocate of Mahayana Buddhism, profoundly shaped philosophical discourse with his elucidation of Madhyamaka principles, contributing greatly to the study of ultimate reality up to the present day.
Candrakīrti (flourished ad 600–650) was the principal representative of the Prāsaṅgika school of Buddhist logic. Candrakīrti wrote the famous commentary the Prasannapadā (“The Clear Worded”) on the thought of the Buddhist sage Nāgārjuna.
Chandrakirti was born in Samanta (or Samana) in southern India sometime in the seventh century. He quickly mastered the knowledge taught in his day and was ordained a monk in the Sangha.
renowned seventh-century Indian master Chandrakirti, an extremely influential text of Mahayana Buddhism, followed by an exhaustive logical explanation of its meaning by the modern Tibetan master Jamgön Mipham, composed approximately twelve centuries later. Chandrakirti’s work is an
Oct 3, 2017 · Chandrakirti answers these qualms, following the principle of criticizing other points of view, establishing your own view, and then rebutting any contrary responses. His Holiness declared how valuable and stimulating it is to read and compare these various authors’ interpretations of the view.
The Madhyamakāvatāra ( Wylie: dbu ma la 'jug-pa) is a text by Candrakīrti (600–c. 650) on the Mādhyamaka school of Buddhist philosophy. Candrakīrti also wrote an auto-commentary to the work, called the Madhyamakāvatārabhasya. [1]
Chandrakirti. Madhyamakāvatāra (T. dbu ma la 'jug pa དབུ་མ་ལ་འཇུག་པ་), or Introduction to the Middle Way, is Chandrakirti 's classic commentary on the meaning of Nagarjuna 's Mulamadhyamaka-karika. It is also a commentary on the Sutra of the Ten Bhumis.
Chandrakirti (Skt. Candrakīrti; Tib. ཟླ་བ་གྲགས་པ་ , Dawa Drakpa ; Wyl. zla ba grags pa ) — a renowned Indian scholar who was born in the early seventh century. He is the author of Introduction to the Middle Way , Clear Words and other key works of the Prasangika Madhyamika .
