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The Root Stanzas of the Middle Way: The Mulamadhyamakakarika - Paperback | Diverse Reads

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A new English translation of the founding text of the Madhyamaka (Middle Way) school of Buddhism, with the Tibetan version of the text included.

The Root Stanzas holds an honored place in all branches of Tibetan Buddhism, as well as in the Buddhist traditions found in China, Japan, and Korea, because of the way it develops the seminal view of emptiness (shunyata), which is crucial to understanding Mahayana Buddhism and central to its practice. It is prized for its pithy and pointed arguments that show that things lack intrinsic being and thus are “empty” (shunya). They abide in the Middle Way, free from the extremes of permanence and annihilation.

ISBN-13: 9781645471417

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: Shambhala

Publication Date: 11-01-2022

Pages: 208

Product Dimensions: 5.36(w) x 8.49(h) x 0.60(d)

NAGARJUNA, the South Indian Buddhist master who lived some six hundred years after the Buddha, founded the Madhyamaka (Middle Way) school of Mahayana Buddhism. He is arguably the most important, influential, and widely studied Mahayana Buddhist philosopher.

Table of Contents

Translators' Preface xv

The Root Stanzas of the Middle Way 1

Homage 2

1 An Examination of Conditions 3

2 An Examination of Motion 7

3 An Examination of the Sense Powers 13

4 An Examination of the Aggregates 15

5 An Examination of the Elements 17

6 An Examination of Desire and the Desirous 19

7 An Examination of Arising, Abiding, and Decay 21

8 An Examination of Agent and Action 27

9 An Examination of the Foregoing Entity 31

10 An Examination of Fire and Fuel 35

11 An Examination of Earlier and Later Limits 39

12 An Examination of Self-Production and Other-Production 41

13 An Examination of Compounded Things 43

14 An Examination of Contact 45

15 An Examination of Intrinsic Being 47

16 An Examination of Bondage and Release from Bondage 51

17 An Examination of Action 53

18 An Examination of the Self and Phenomena 59

19 An Examination of Time 63

20 An Examination of the Confluence of Causes and Conditions 65

21 An Examination of Arising and Destruction 71

22 An Examination of the Tathagata 75

23 An Examination of Mistakes 79

24 An Examination of the Truths of the Aryas 85

25 An Examination of Nirvana 93

26 An Examination of the Twelve Links of Existence 99

27 An Examination of Views 103

Concluding Homage 109

Colophon 111

The Tibetan Text 113

Notes 171

Bibliography 175