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    Madhyamaka (redirect from Mādhyamika)
    influential in East Asian Buddhist thought. According to the classical Indian Mādhyamika thinkers, all phenomena (dharmas) are empty (śūnya) of "nature", of any...
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  • in some ultimate sense and the view that things do not exist at all. Madhyamika philosophy, based on the Buddha's Perfection of Wisdom Sutras, was set...
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    Yogacarins and Madhyamikas centered on the status and reality of the paratantra-svabhāva (the "dependent nature"), with Madhyamika's like Bhāvaviveka...
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  • Shentong (Wylie: gzhan stong, "emptiness of other") is term for a type of Buddhist view on emptiness (śūnyatā), Madhyamaka, and the two truths in Indo-Tibetan...
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    Empty Logic: Mādhyamika Buddhism from Chinese Sources, Motilal Banarsidass Publ., 1991, p. 56. Hsueh-li Cheng, Empty Logic: Mādhyamika Buddhism from...
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  • Verses on the Middle Way) by Nagarjuna, the foundational text of the Madhyamika school. During the Gupta Empire, a new class of Buddhist sacred literature...
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    1967. Early Madhyamika in China and India, p. 71. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. Robinson, Richard H. 1967. Early Madhyamika in China and India...
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    his use of these positive logical arguments. For Chandrakirti, a true Mādhyamika only uses reductio ad absurdum arguments and does not put forth positive...
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    Middle Way) by Nagarjuna, the foundational text of Madhyamika philosophy. Numerous later Madhyamika philosophers like Candrakirti wrote commentaries on...
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  • between Pyrrhonism and Madhyamika: An extraordinary similarity, that has long been noticed, between Pyrrhonism and Mādhyamika is the formula known in...
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    Pramana Yoga Jainism Haribhadra Umaswati Buddhism The Buddha Traditions Madhyamika Nagarjuna Yogacara Vasubandhu Dharmakirti Indian logic Dignāga Topics...
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    skepticism was notably defended by the Ajñana school and in the Buddhist Madhyamika tradition. In modern philosophy, René Descartes' famous inquiry into mind...
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    besieging Saketa") "Arunad Yavano Madhyamikām" ("The Yavanas were besieging Madhyamika" (the "Middle country")). The Brahmanical text of the Yuga Purana describes...
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    interaction between Indian Buddhist monks (particularly of the Southern Madhyamika School) and Chinese Confucian and Taoist monks from c200-c900AD produced...
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  • Press. p. 51. ISBN 978-0-521-85241-8. [b] Gadjin M. Nagao (January 1991). Madhyamika and Yogacara: A Study of Mahayana Philosophies. State University of New...
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  • developed by Nāgārjuna (c. 150 – c. 250 CE) of the Madhyamaka school. The Madhyamikas distinguish between loka-samvriti-satya, "world speech truth" c.q. "relative...
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    is described as the realization of sunyata (emptiness or nothingness). Madhyamika Buddhist texts call this as the middle point of all dualities (Middle...
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    Kusuma Nepalese Dharmasangha (archived) ZenEssays: Nagarjuna and the Madhyamika Mula madhyamaka karika online Tibetan and English version translated by...
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    the ultimate nature of reality, culminating in the philosophy of the Mādhyamikas, which is widely believed to present the most sophisticated point of...
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    possible cessation of mind and mental factors in buddhahood. Like all madhyamikas, Chandrakirti defends a theory of two truths with a strict anti-foundationalist...
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    centre of Jain tradition. Chittor is adjacent to the ancient city of Madhyamika. The Jain inscriptions at Mathura from the Kushana period (1st–3rd centuries...
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    combined the Madhyamika-Svatantrika and Cittamatra schools, and created a new school of Madhyamika called Svatantrika-Yogachara-Madhyamika. His disciple...
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  • approach "phenomenological". Later philosophical traditions include the Madhyamika school of Nagarjuna, which further developed the theory of the emptiness...
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    Samādhirāja is "perhaps the most important scriptural source for the Madhyamika." The Samādhirāja is also widely cited in Tantric Buddhist sources, which...
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    no-origination". The term "ajāta" is similar to the term "anutpāda" from Madhyamika Buddhism, which means "having no origin", "not coming into existence"...
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