The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way

Nāgārjuna's Mūlamadhyamakakārikā

Recommended by Carlo Rovelli, and 1 others. See all reviews

Ranked #13 in Indian Philosophy, Ranked #71 in Buddhism

The Buddhist saint Nagarjuna, who lived in South India in approximately the second century CE, is undoubtedly the most important, influential, and widely studied Mahayana Buddhist philosopher. His many works include texts addressed to lay audiences, letters of advice to kings, and a set of penetrating metaphysical and epistemological treatises. His greatest philosophical work, the Mulamadhyamikakarika—read and studied by philosophers in all major Buddhist schools of Tibet, China, Japan, and Korea—is one of the most influential works in the history of Indian philosophy. Now, in The Fundamental... more

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Carlo Rovelli Nagarjuna’s philosophy is centred on the idea of the interdependence of all things and the absence of autonomous essence of anything. (Source)


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