Acharya Nāgārjuna (Devanagari:नागार्जुन, Tibetan: ཀླུ་སྒྲུབ་ klu sgrub, Chinese: 龍樹) (ca. 150–250 CE) was an Indian philosopher who founded the Madhyamaka school of Mahāyāna Buddhism.
His writings are the basis for the formation of the Madhyamaka school, which was transmitted to China under the name of the Three Treatise (Sanlun) School. He is credited with developing the philosophy of the Prajnaparamita sutras, and was closely associated with the Buddhist university of Nalanda. In the Jodo Shinshu branch of Buddhism, he is considered the First Patriarch.
Little is known about the actual life of the historical Nagarjuna. The two most extensive biographies of Nagarjuna, one in Chinese and the other in Tibetan, were written many centuries after his life and incorporate material seen by some as historically unreliable. Nagarjuna was born a Brahmin, which in his time connoted religious allegiance to the Vedas, probably into an upper-caste Brahmin family and probably in the southern Andhra region of India.
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Suhr̥llekha
14 editions - first published in 1961 -
Dharmasaṅgraha
9 editions - first published in 1885 -
Ratnāvalī
9 editions - first published in 1970 -
Mūlamadhyamakakārikā
7 editions - first published in 1970 -
Suhr̥llekha: a bodhisattva's advice to an Indian king on right living and the Buddhist path = The Suhŕ̥llekha : an epistle composed for King Śatakarṇi
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Ratnāvalī: a bodhisattva's profound teachings on happiness, liberation, and the path
3 editions - first published in 1992 -
Nītiśāstrajantupoṣaṇabindu: a commentary / translated from the Mongolian by Stanley Frye.
3 editions - first published in 1961 -
Ston pa bcom ldan ʾdas la mdzad pa bcu gñis kyi sgo nas bstod pa bźugs so
2 editions - first published in 1972 -
Vigrahavyāvartanī
2 editions - first published in 1937 -
Vigrahavyāvarttanī: Vigrahavyāvartanī
2 editions - first published in 1978 -
The Mādhyamika treatises of Nāgārjuna
2 editions - first published in 1980 -
Dvādaśadvāraśāstra
2 editions - first published in 1982 -
Dundazh u̇zliĭn ukhaany chuulgan
2 editions - first published in 2002 -
Madhyamakavṛttiḥ: Mūlamadhyamakakārikās (Mādhyamikasūtras) de Nāgārjuna avec la Prasannapadā commentaire de Candrakīrti
2 editions - first published in 1913 Read -
Prajñādaṇḍa
2 editions - first published in 1919 -
The precious garland and The song of the four mindfulnesses
1 edition - first published in 1975 -
A Metrical Translation in Tibetan of a Sanskrit Ethical Work
1 edition - first published in 1989 -
Suh-ki-li-lih-kiu
1 edition - first published in 1892 -
Nagarajuna's philosophy as presented in the Maha-Prajnaparamita-Sastra
1 edition - first published in 1987 -
Ryūju ronshū
1 edition - first published in 1978 -
Le traité de la grande vertu de sagesse de Nāgārjuna (Mahāprajñāpāramitāṡāstra)
1 edition - first published in 1944 -
Master of wisdom: writings of the Buddhist Master Nāgārjuna
1 edition - first published in 1986 -
Buddizm Nagardzhuny: religiozno-filosofskie traktaty
1 edition - first published in 2000 -
Daśabhūmivibhāṣāśāstra: a study and translation from Chinese of verses and chapter 9
1 edition - first published in 1998 -
Nāgārjuna, a translation of his Mūlamadhyamakakārikā with an introductory essay
1 edition - first published in 1993 -
The dialectical method of Nāgārjuna
1 edition - first published in 1986 -
Dpal-mgon ʼPhags-pa Klu-sgrub kyis mdzad paʼi ro laṅs gser ʼgyur gyi chos sgruṅ ñer gcig pa rgyas par phye ba
1 edition - first published in 1980 -
Mūla māddhyamika kārikāva
1 edition - first published in 1963 -
Nāgārjuna: a translation of his Mūlamadhya makakārikā with an introductory essay by Kenneth K. Inada.
1 edition - first published in 1970 -
Dbu ma'i bstan bcos rigs pa'i tshogs drug
1 edition - first published in 1970 -
Mūlamadhyamakakārikā of Nāgārjunā: the philosophy ofthe middle way
1 edition - first published in 1991 -
Nagarjuna's philosophy as presented in the Maha-prajñparamita-sastra
1 edition - first published in 1966 -
Nāgārjuna's guide to the Bodhisattva path: Ārya Nāgārjuna's Treatise on the provisions for enlightenment (Bodhisaṃbhāra śāstra) : with a selective abridgement of Bhikshu Vaśitva's early Indian Bodhisaṃbhāra śāstra commentary
1 edition - first published in 2009 -
Rgyu ʼbras smon lam: a prayer
1 edition - first published in 1969 -
Nāgārjuna
1 edition - first published in 1970 -
Four minor Madhyamaka texts in Tibetan translation
1 edition - first published in 1969 -
Madhyamakavrttih: Mūlamadhyamakakārikās (Mādhyamikasutrās) de Nāgārjuna, avec la Prasannapadā commentaire de Candrakirti. Pub. par Louis de la Vallée Poussin.
1 edition - first published in 1903 -
Vaidalyaprakaraṇa
1 edition - first published in 1995 -
Le traité de la grande vertue de sagesse (Mahāprajñāpāramitāśāstra) [traduction] par Étienne Lamotte
1 edition - first published in 1944 -
The philosophy of the middle way =
1 edition - first published in 1986 -
Ta chih tu lun
1 edition - first published in 1973 -
Nāgārjuna's philosophy: as presented in the Maha-prajnāpāramitā-śāstra
1 edition - first published in 1975 -
Dbu ma'i bstan bcos rigs pa'i
1 edition - first published in 1970 -
Taejidoron
1 edition - first published in 1994 -
Dbu ma rig tshogs drug
1 edition - first published in 1996 -
The tree of wisdom: being the Tibetan text, with English translation, of Nāgārjuna's gnomic verse treatise called the prajñādaṇḍa
1 edition - first published in 1975 -
Mahātantra
1 edition - first published in 1971 -
The dispeller of disputes: Nagarjuna's Vigrahavyavartani
1 edition - first published in 2010 -
Nāgārjuna: the philosophy of the middle way
1 edition - first published in 1986 -
Lama Mipam's Annotated Commentary to Nagajuna's Stanza For a Novice Monk
1 edition - first published in 1997 -
A Study of Nagarjuna's Twenty Verses on the Great Vehicle (Mahayanavimsika) and His Verses on the Heart of Dependent Origination: (Pratityasamutpadahrdayakarika) ... (Toronto Studies in Religion)
1 edition - first published in 2000 -
Madhyamakavrttih
1 edition - first published in 1903 Read -
Fundamentos de la via media
1 edition - first published in 2004 -
Nagarjuna's Letter to a Friend
1 edition - first published in 2006 -
Le Traiti de La Grande Vertu de Sagesse de Nagarjuna. T. IV, Chap. XLII (Suite)-XLVIII. (Bibliotheque Du Museon)
1 edition - first published in 1976 -
Madhyamaka karika: le stanze del cammino di mezzo. Vigraha vyavartani; la sterminatrice dei dissensi. Catuhstava; le quattro laudi. [Introduzione, traduzione e note di Raniero Gnoli.]
1 edition - first published in 1961 -
Mula-madhyamaka-karika, with commentary of Candrakirti and with Mañjuvyakhya by Bidhu Bhusan: Edited with English & Bengali translations by Heramba Chatterjee Sastry.
1 edition - first published in 1962 -
Traité du milieu
1 edition - first published in 1998 -
Da zhi du lun
1 edition - first published in 1970 -
La lettre à un ami
1 edition - first published in 1981 -
Nagarjuna's Seventy Stanzas: A Buddhist Psychology of Emptiness
1 edition - first published in 1999 -
Stances du milieu par excellence
1 edition - first published in 2002 -
Le Livre de la chance
1 edition - first published in 2003 -
Nagarjuna's Letter to King Gautamiputra (With Explanatory Notes Based on Tibetan Commentaries and a Preface by His Holiness Sakya Trizin, Translated into English from the Tibetan)
1 edition - first published in 2004 -
Madhyamakaśastra
1 edition - first published in 1960 -
Yukti-sastikâ: Die 60 Sätze des Negativismus, nach der chinesischen Version übers. von Phil. Schaeffer.
1 edition - first published in 1923 -
Mulamadhyamakakarika (Bibliotheca Indo-Buddhica)
1 edition - first published in 1994 -
In Praise of Dharmadhatu
1 edition - first published in 2007 -
Mahayanavimśaka: Reconstructed Sanskrit text, Tibetan and Chinese versions with an English translation. Edited by Vidhusekhara Bhattacharya.
1 edition - first published in 1931 -
The fundamental wisdom of the middle way
1 edition - first published in 1995 -
Nāgārjuna's Reason sixty with Chandrakīrti's Reason sixty commentary
1 edition - first published in 2007 -
The fundamental wisdom of the middle way
1 edition - first published in 1995 -
Master of Wisdom
1 edition - first published in 1997 -
Nagarjuna's Letter to King Gautamiputra
1 edition - first published in 1978 -
On Voidness: A Study on Buddhist Nihilism (Buddhist Tradition Series, Vol 23)
1 edition - first published in 2002 -
Nagarjuna's Letter: The Suhrllekha
1 edition - first published in 2002 -
Conseils au roi
1 edition - first published in 2000 -
Versos Sobre Los Fundamentos del Camino Medio
1 edition - first published in 2003 -
Nāgārjuna's philosophy as presented in the Mahā-prajñā-pāramitā-sāstra
1 edition - first published in 1971 -
Yukti-sastikâ: Die 60 Sâtze des Negativismus
1 edition - first published in 1923 -
The philosophy of Nāgārjuna: as contained in the Ratnāvalī
1 edition - first published in 1977 -
The philosophy of Nāgārjuna, as contained in the Ratnāvalī
1 edition - first published in 1977 -
Ryūju no shokan
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