Mulamadhyamakakarika
༺དབུ་མ་རྩ་བའི་ཚིག་ལེའུ་བྱས་པ་ཤེས་རབ་ཆེས་བྱ་བ།༻ - (dbu ma rtsa ba'i tshig le'u byas pa shes rab ches bya ba)
༺དབུ་མ་རྩ་བའི་ཤེས་རབ།༻ - (dbu ma rtsa ba'i shes rab)
༺དབུ་མ་རྩ་ཤེ།༻ - (dbu ma rtsa she)
Please also see: Mulamadhyamakakarika: Verses from the Centre (with chapters and links corresponding to those listed below).
Mulamadhyamakakarika by Nagarjuna is one of the greatest Middle Way commentary texts.
In English: Fundamental Verses on the Middle Way.
This text inspired a large set of commentary literature in Sanskrit, in the Tibetan, Chinese, Korean and Japanese traditions. The Middle Way philosophical schools have their basis established in this text: both the Svatantrika-Madhyamika and Prasangika-Madhyamika systems are described in this text based on scholars from either tradition.
Contents
Full text and translation: Mulamadhyamakakarika: Verses from the Centre
The text is in verse form, and has 27 chapters:
see corresponding Chapters and verses here >> (Contents & Translation of "Mulamadhyamakakarika: Verses from the Centre")
- Dedicatory verses
- Chapter 1: Conditions
- Chapter 2: Motions
- Chapter 3: The Senses
- Chapter 4: The Aggregates
- Chapter 5: The Elements
- Chapter 6: Desire and The Desirous
- Chapter 7: The Conditioned
- Chapter 8: Agent and Action
- Chapter 9: Prior Entity
- Chapter 10: Fire and Fuel
- Chapter 11: Initial and Final Limits
- Chapter 12: Suffering
- Chapter 13: Compounded Phenomena
- Chapter 14: Connection
- Chapter 15: Essence
- Chapter 16: Bondage
- Chapter 17: Actions and their Fruit
- Chapter 18: Self and Entities
- Chapter 19: Time
- Chapter 20: Combinations
- Chapter 21: Becoming and Destruction
- Chapter 22: Tathagata
- Chapter 23: Errors
- Chapter 24: Four Noble Truths
- Chapter 25: Nirvana
- Chapter 26: Twelve Links
- Chapter 27: Views
Famous Quotes
See Also
- The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way, translation and commentary by Jay Garfield, ISBN 0-19-509336-4
- Tibetan Original Text from Asian Classics Input Project in ACIP Format
- Translation at Buddhist Information Web Site