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Nagarjuna

Britannica Concise Encyclopedia

(born 150—died 250) Indian monk and philosopher, founder of the Madhyamika school of Buddhism. Born into a Brahman family, he underwent a spiritual conversion when he studied the doctrines of Mahayana Buddhism. His Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way and The Dialectical Method are ...

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Buddhism
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

Buddhism , religion and philosophy founded in India c.525 BC by Siddhartha Gautama, called the Buddha . There are over 300 million Buddhists worldwide. One of the great world religions, it is divided into two main schools: the Theravada or Hinayana in Sri Lanka and SE Asia, and the Mahayana in ...

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Madhyamika
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

Madhyamika [Skt.,=of the middle], philosophical school of Mahayana Buddhism , based on the teaching of "emptiness" (see sunyata ) and named for its adherence to the "middle path" between the views of existence or eternalism and nonexistence or nihilism. The school was founded by ...

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