The Root Stanzas of the Middle Way: The Mulamadhyamakakarika

Publisher: Shambhala
BISAC/Subject: PHI028000, REL007050, REL007030
ISBN: 9780834840294, Related ISBNs: 0834840294, 161180342X, 9780834840294, 9781611803426
Classification: Non-Fiction
Number of pages: 200,
Audience: General/trade
Synopsis: This volume presents a new English translation of the founding text of the Madhyamaka (Middle Way) school of Mahayana Buddhism, Nagarjuna’s Root Stanzas of the Middle Way, and includes the Tibetan version of the text. The Root Stanzas holds an honored place in all branches of Tibetan Buddhism, as well as in the Buddhist traditions found in China, Japan, and Korea, because of the way it develops the seminal view of emptiness (shunyata), which is crucial to understanding Mahayana Buddhism and central to its practice. It is prized for its pithy and pointed arguments that show that things lack intrinsic being and thus are "empty" (shunya). They abide in the Middle Way, free from the extremes of permanence and annihilation.
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