NAGARJUNA'S FUNDAMENTAL DOCTRINE OF PRATITYASAMUTPADA.

From: Philosophy East and West | Date: January 1, 2001| Author: | Copyright information

It seems fitting that the very last verse of Nagarjuna's challenging work, Mulamadhyamakakarika (Fundamental Verses of the Middle Way), would present the reader with what seems to be a riddle: "I prostrate to Gautama, who through compassion, taught the true doctrine, which leads to the relinquishing of all views" (27:30). This should be read with an earlier verse (13:8): "The victorious ones have said that emptiness is the relinquishing of all views. For whomever emptiness is a view, that one will accomplish nothing."(1) Since the last chapter deals with questions about the self ...

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