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Nagarjuna
The Philosophy of the Middle Way
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Hardcover - 429 pages |
| Release Date: January 1986 |
ISBN10: 0-88706-148-6
ISBN13: 978-0-88706-148-6
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Paperback - 429 pages |
| Release Date: January 1986 |
ISBN10: 0-88706-149-4
ISBN13: 978-0-88706-149-3
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This is a completely new translation of Nagarjuna's major work, the Mulamadhyamakakarika, accompanied by a detailed annotation of each of the verses. The annotation identifies the metaphysical theories of the scholastics criticized by Nagarjuna, and traces the source material and the arguments utilized in his refutation back to the early discourses of the Buddha.
The Introduction presents a completely new hypothesisthe nature of the treatise. The work is a grand commentary on the Buddha's "Discourse to Katyayana" (Kaccayanaqotta-sutta). The concluding part of the Introduction compares the teachings of the Buddha and Nagarjuna in regard to epistemology, ontology, ethics and philosophy of language indicating how the latter was making a determined attempt to reconstruct the Buddha's teachings in a very faithful manner, avoiding the substantialist metaphysics of the scholastics.
The book shows that Nagarjuna's ideas are neither original nor are they an advancement from the early Buddhist period. Nagarjuna is not a Mahayanist.
David Kalupahana is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hawaii.
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Table of Contents
Abbreviations
Preface
Introduction
The Middle Path
Nagarjuna: The Myth
Nagarjuna: The Philosopher and Grand Commentator
Nagarjuna and Kumarajiva
Nagarjuna's Buddha
Analysis of the Kaccayanagotta-Sutta
Buddha's Conception of Language and Truth
Period of the Sravakas
Moggaliputta-tissa: The First Reformer
Early Mahayana: The Second Reform Movement
Structure of the Mulamadhyamakakarika
Analysis of the Karika
Nagarjuna's Philosophical Enterprise
Sanskrit Text, Translation and Annotation
Sanskrit Index to the Karika
Index of Nominal Forms
Index of Verbal Forms
General Index
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