An analytical study of Nagarjuna's philosophy as a fresh and local formulation of Buddha's middle way
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Date
2010
Authors
Zhou, Ruimeng
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University of Peradeniya
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This work was an analysis of the philosophical basic conceptions to Mahayana Buddhism as found in the Madhyamika-Sastra, a commentary on the Prajnaparamita-sutras and traditionally attributed to Nagarjuna.
The Madhyamika-sastra is the most extensive work in this field. The Sanskrit sastra was originally preserved and translated into Chinese. The meanings of Sanskrit and Chinese terms are expounded, concepts are made clear, and supplementary materials are supplied in the notes. The study is prefixed with a short historical account of the broad lines of Buddhist philosophy in its early stage.
The aim of this work was to elucidate the meaning of the analytical study of Nagarjuna’s philosophy as a fresh and logical formulation of Buddha’s Middle Way, the way of comprehension. Everything stands in harmony with him who stands in harmony with sunyata, which is not a rejection of existence or understanding but the misconstruction of the sense of the real or the error of misplaced absoluteness which is the origin of clinging and the root of conflict and suffering.
In this work, the examiners had provided a great help to me. They had not only given me a valuable suggestion in my dissertation, but also proposed a good topic for my dissertation. Such as the examiners said, it is not clear whether the original title “Nagarjuna’s Philosophy — A Fresh and Logical Formulation of Buddha’s Middle Way” is going to be critical, analytical and comparative or what kind of study it would really be. Therefore it is better to mention in the title such a qualifying statement, “dn Analytical Study of Nagarjuna's Philosophy as a Fresh and Logical Formulation of Buddha's Middle Way”
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Buddhism , Mahayana , Middle Way