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[[Mulamadhyamakakarika]] by [[Nagarjuna]] is one of the greatest [[Middle Way]] commentary texts.
[[File:Nagarjuna.jpg|frame|[[Nagarjuna]]]]
<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]])


In Tibetan: [[dbu ma rtsa ba'i tshig le'u byas pa shes rab ches bya ba]], also [[dbu ma rtsa ba'i shes rab]] or [[dbu ma rtsa she]]
<noinclude><span class=TibUni18>༺[[དབུ་མ་རྩ་བའི་ཤེས་རབ།]]༻</span></noinclude> - ([[dbu ma rtsa ba'i shes rab]])


In English: Fundamental Verses on the Middle Way.
<noinclude><span class=TibUni18>༺[[དབུ་མ་རྩ་ཤེ།]]༻</span></noinclude> - ([[dbu ma rtsa she]])


This text then 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.
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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== 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.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

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