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<noinclude><span class=TibUni18>༺[[དབུ་མ་རྩ་བའི་ཚིག་ལེའུ་བྱས་པ་ཤེས་རབ་ཆེས་བྱ་བ།]]༻</span></noinclude> - ([[dbu ma rtsa ba'i tshig le'u byas pa shes rab ches bya ba]]) | |||
<noinclude><span class=TibUni18>༺[[དབུ་མ་རྩ་བའི་ཤེས་རབ།]]༻</span></noinclude> - ([[dbu ma rtsa ba'i shes rab]]) | |||
<noinclude><span class=TibUni18>༺[[དབུ་མ་རྩ་ཤེ།]]༻</span></noinclude> - ([[dbu ma rtsa she]]) | |||
This text | 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 == | == Contents == | ||
Full text and translation: '''''[[Mulamadhyamakakarika: Verses from the Centre]]''''' | |||
The text is in verse form, and has 27 chapters: | 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 | * Dedicatory verses | ||
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* Chapter 26: Twelve Links | * Chapter 26: Twelve Links | ||
* Chapter 27: Views | * Chapter 27: Views | ||
== Famous Quotes == | |||
* [[bdag las ma yin gzhan las min]] | |||
* [[gang la stong pa nyid rung ba]] | |||
== See Also == | == See Also == | ||
* The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way, translation and commentary by Jay Garfield, ISBN 0-19-509336-4 | * [[The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way]], translation and commentary by [[Jay Garfield]], ISBN 0-19-509336-4 | ||
* [http://www.asianclassics.org/research_site/download/texts/tengyur/TD3824N.ACT Tibetan Original Text] from [[Asian Classics Input Project]] in [[ACIP Format]] | |||
*[http://www.buddhistinformation.com/nargarjunas_mulamadhyamakakarika.htm Translation at Buddhist Information Web Site] | |||
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Latest revision as of 11:49, 9 October 2009
༺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