Mulamadhyamaka-karika
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Mulamadhyamika-karika (Skt. Prajñā-nāma-mūlamadhyamakakārikā; Tib. དབུ་མ་རྩ་བ་ཤེས་རབ་, Uma Tsawa Sherab; Wyl. dbu ma rtsa ba shes rab), The Root Verses on the Wisdom of the Middle Way. The most famous and important treatise on Madhyamika philosophy, composed by the great master Nagarjuna. It is included among the so-called "Thirteen great texts", which form the core of the curriculum in most shedras and on which Khenpo Shenga provided commentaries.
Outline
There are twenty-seven chapters:
- Examination of Conditions
- Examination of Motion
- Examination of the Senses
- Examination of the Skandhas
- Examination of the Dhatus
- Examination of Desire and the Desirous
- Examination of the Conditioned
- Examination of the Agent and Action
- Examination of the Prior Entity
- Examination of Fire and Fuel
- Examination of the Initial and Final Limits
- Examination of Suffering
- Examination of Compounded Phenomena
- Examination of Connection
- Examination of Essence
- Examination of Bondage
- Examination of Actions and their Fruits
- Examination of Self and Entities
- Examination of Time
- Examination of Combination
- Examination of Becoming and Destruction
- Examination of the Tathagata
- Examination of Errors
- Examination of the Four Noble Truths
- Examination of Nirvana
- Examination of the Twelve Links
- Examination of Views
Tibetan Text
Commentaries
Indian
- Chandrakirti, Clear Words (Skt. Prasannapada)
Tibetan
- དབུ་མ་རྩ་བའི་ཚིག་ལེའུར་བྱས་པ་ཤེས་རབ་ཅེས་བྱ་བའི་མཆན་འགྲེལ་, dbu ma rtsa ba'i tshig le'ur byas pa shes rab ces bya ba'i mchan 'grel
- དབུ་མ་རྩ་བའི་མཆན་འགྲེལ་གནས་ལུགས་རབ་གསལ་ཀླུ་དབང་དགོངས་རྒྱན་, dbu ma rtsa ba'i mchan 'grel gnas lugs rab gsal klu dbang dgongs rgyan
Translations
- Garfield, Jay. The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way. Oxford University Press 1995.
- Inada, Kenneth. Nagarjuna: A Translation of his Mulamadhyamikakarika. Tokyo: The Hokuseido Press, 1970
- Kalupahana, David. Nagarjuna: The Philosophy of the Middle Way. Albany: State University, 1986
- Nagarjuna. The Root Stanzas on the Middle Way (translated by Padmakara Translation Group). Padmakara, 2008
- Streng, Frederik. Emptiness: A Study in Religious Meaning. Nashville: Abdingdon Press 1967