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Mulamadhyamakakarika by Nagarjuna is one of the greatest Middle Way commentary texts.

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

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.

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The text is in verse form, and has 27 chapters:

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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 In English: Fundamental Verses on the Middle Way.
-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.
+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.
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