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Nagarjuna

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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Born c. 150
Died c. 250

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  • Cover of: Le Traiti de La Grande Vertu de Sagesse de Nagarjuna. T. IV, Chap. XLII (Suite)-XLVIII. (Bibliotheque Du Museon)

    First published in 1976 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Madhyamakaśastra

    First published in 1960 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: 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.]

    First published in 1961 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Mahayanavimśaka.: Reconstructed Sanskrit text, Tibetan and Chinese versions with an English translation. Edited by Vidhusekhara Bhattacharya.

    First published in 1931 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Master of Wisdom

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  • Cover of: Mulamadhyamakakarika (Bibliotheca Indo-Buddhica)

    First published in 1994 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Mula-madhyamaka-karika, with commentary of Candrakirti and with Mañjuvyakhya by Bidhu Bhusan.: Edited with English & Bengali translations by Heramba Chatterjee Sastry.

    First published in 1962 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: 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)

    First published in 2004 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Versos Sobre Los Fundamentos del Camino Medio

    First published in 2003 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Yukti-sastikâ.: Die 60 Sätze des Negativismus, nach der chinesischen Version übers. von Phil. Schaeffer.

    First published in 1923 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: The Madhyamakasastram of Nagarjuna

    First published in 1989 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Nagarjuna's Letter: The Suhrllekha

    First published in 2002 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Nāgārjuna's philosophy as presented in the Mahā-prajñā-pāramitā-sāstra

    First published in 1971 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Suh-ki-li-lih-kiu: the suhr□illekha or 'friendly letter' addressed to King Sadvaha

    First published in 1892 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: traité de la grande vertu de sagesse de Nāgārjuna (Mahāprajñāpāramitāṡāstra)

    First published in 1944 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Dbu ma'i bstan bcos rigs pa'i

    First published in 1970 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: The dispeller of disputes: Nagarjuna's Vigrahavyavartani

    First published in 2010 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Madhyamakavrttih.: Mūlamadhyamakakārikās (Mādhyamikasutrās) de Nāgārjuna, avec la Prasannapadā commentaire de Candrakirti. Pub. par Louis de la Vallée Poussin.

    First published in 1903 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Nāgārjuna: a translation of his Mūlamadhya makakārikā with an introductory essay by Kenneth K. Inada.

    First published in 1970 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: 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

    First published in 2009 — 1 edition
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Born c. 150
Died c. 250

Subjects

Early works to 1800, Mādhyamika (Buddhism), Buddhism, Tripiṭaka, Commentaries, Mahayana Buddhism, Buddhist Philosophy, Pratītyasamutpāda, Texts, Tibetan language, Buddhist ethics, Buddhist philosophy, Prayers and devotions, Religious life, Tales, Doctrines, History and criticism, Madhyamika (Buddhism), Bodhisattva stages (Mahayana Buddhism), Buddha and Buddhism, Correspondence, Nagarjuna, active 2nd century, Spiritual life, Sunyata, Tibetan Medicine

Places

India, China, Tibet, Tibet Autonomous Region, Tibet Region

People

Nāgārjuna (2nd cent), Nāgārjuna (active 2nd century), Aśvaghoṣa, Candrakīrti, Gautama Buddha, Thon-mi Sambhoṭa (fl. 632)

Time

Early works to 1800

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Alternative names

  • Acharya Nāgārjuna
  • Nāgārjuna
  • Ngrjuna
  • नागार्जुन
  • ཀླུ་སྒྲུབ་
  • klu sgrub
  • 龍樹

History

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May 3, 2023 Edited by Tom Morris merge authors
May 3, 2023 Edited by Tom Morris Add names in other languages to AKAs
September 30, 2020 Edited by MARC Bot add ISNI
March 31, 2017 Edited by MARC Bot add VIAF and wikidata ID
April 29, 2008 Created by an anonymous user initial import