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
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Dharmasaṅgraha
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Ratnāvalī
First published in 19709 editions — 2 previewable
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Mūlamadhyamakakārikā
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Suhr̥llekha: a bodhisattva's advice to an Indian king on right living and the Buddhist path = The Suhr̥llekha : an epistle composed for King Śatakarṇi
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The Madhyamakasastram of Nagarjuna
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Nītiśāstrajantupoṣaṇabindu: a commentary / translated from the Mongolian by Stanley Frye.
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Ratnāvalī: a bodhisattva's profound teachings on happiness, liberation, and the path
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Vigrahavyāvartanī
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Vigrahavyāvarttanī: Vigrahavyāvartanī
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Dundazh u̇zliĭn ukhaany chuulgan
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Ston pa bcom ldan ʾdas la mdzad pa bcu gñis kyi sgo nas bstod pa bźugs so
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The Mādhyamika treatises of Nāgārjuna
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ʾJu Mi-pham gyi sman yig gces btus
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Dvādaśadvāraśāstra
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Prajñādaṇḍa
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Vaidalyaprakaraṇa
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Madhyamakavṛttiḥ: Mūlamadhyamakakārikās (Mādhyamikasūtras) de Nāgārjuna avec la Prasannapadā commentaire de Candrakīrti
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Dbu ma rtsa ba śes rab
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Āryanāgārjunīyaṃ Madhyamakaśāstram
First published in 19831 edition
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Mādhyamika (Buddhism), Early works to 1800, Accessible book, Protected DAISY, Tripiṭaka, Commentaries, Buddhism, Buddhist Philosophy, Mahayana Buddhism, Buddha and Buddhism, Buddhist philosophy, Doctrines, Madhyamika (Buddhism), Mādhyamika (Buddhism) -- Early works to 1800., Religious life, Sunyata, Bodhisattva stages (Mahayana Buddhism), Buddhist priests, Correspondence, Medicine, Tibetan -- Early works to 1800., Mādhyamika (Buddhism) -- Early works to 1800, Mūlamadhyamakakārikā (Nagarjuna), Nagarjuna, active 2nd century, Nāgārjuna, -- 2nd cent, Philosophy, BuddhistPeople
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Alternative names
- Acharya Nāgārjuna
- Nāgārjuna
- Ngrjuna
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