nagarjunas madhyamaka a philosophical introduction feb 2009

[...]... la Vallée Poussin (ed.), Bodhicaryāvatāra of Çāntideva, Asiatic Society of Bengal, Calcutta, 1907 abbreviations NS Nyāyasūtra Taranatha Nyaya-Tarkatirtha and Amarendramohan Tarkatirtha (eds.), Nyāyadarśanam with Vātsyāyana’s Bhāsya, Uddyotakara’s Vārtika, Vācaspati Miśra’s Tātparyat īkā and Viśvanātha’s Vr tti, Munshiram Manoharlal, Delhi, 1985 xiii This page intentionally left blank Nāgārjuna’s... above edition.) MA Candrakīrti’s Madhyamakāvatāra MAB Candrakīrti’s Madhyamakāvatārabhāsya Louis de la Vallée Poussin (ed.), Madhyamakāvatāra par Candrakīrti Bibliotheca Buddhica IX, St Petersburg, 1907–1912 CŚ Āryadeva’s Catuhśataka Karen Lang (ed.), Āryadeva’s Catuhśataka On the Bodhisattva’s Cultivation of Merit and Knowledge Akademisk Forlag, Copenhagen, 1986 BCA Śāntideva’s Bodhicaryāvatāra... Motilal Banarsidass, Delhi, 2002, 53–99 xii abbreviations VV Vigrahavyāvartanī VV(S) Svavr tti on the Vigrahavyāvartanī Kamaleswar Bhattacharya, E H Johnston, and Arnold Kunst (eds.), The Dialectical Method of Nāgārjuna Motilal Banarsidass, Delhi, 1998 VP Vaidalyaprakarana VP(S) Svavr tti on the Vaidalyaprakarana Fernando Tola and Carmen Dragonetti, Nāgārjuna’s Refutation of Logic Motilal Banarsidass,... here, the relations between the different senses discussed by the three authors and, in Schayer’s case, the distinctness of the four senses given by him, are too unclear to make an attempt at comparison worthwhile 8 maranan ti kho mahārāja etam adit hasaccānam tāsaniyam hānam maranass’ eso mahārāja t t sarasabhāvatejo tassa sarasabhāvatejena sakilesā sattā maranassa tasanti bhāyanti Trenckner... Delhi, 1995 RĀ Ratnāvalī Michael Hahn: Nāgārjuna’s Ratnāvalī The Basic Texts (Sanskrit, Tibetan, Chinese) Indica et Tibetica, Bonn, 1982 works by other authors PP Candrakīrti’s Prasannapadā Louis de la Vallée Poussin (ed.), Prasannapadā Mūlamadhyamakavr ttih Bibliotheca Buddhica IV, St Petersburg, 1903–1913 J W De Jong: “Textcritical notes on the Prasannapadā,” Indo-Iranian Journal 20, 1978, 25–59,... 149) For a translation see Davids (1890: 211) 9 “Svabhāva is precisely their own characteristic, a common characteristic, on the other hand, is the impermanence of compounded phenomena.” svabhāva evaisām svalaksanam sāmānyalaksanam tu anityatā samskr tānām Bhāsya on Vasubandhu (1970–1973: 6:14) For further references see Williams (1981: 243) 10 Svabhāvena parabhāvaviyogatah (Vasubandhu 1970–1973:... “drawback” is a defect not in the Madhyamaka position but in the choice of interpretative framework To conceive of Nāgārjuna’s Madhyamaka as a theory whereby an indescribable Absolute grounds the world of appearances means reading assumptions into it that Nāgārjuna does not share, thereby resulting in an unsatisfactory theory The second, analytic phase of Western studies of Nāgārjuna can be regarded as... Mūlamadhyamakakārikā Prajnā Nāma Adyar Library, ˜ Adyar, Chennai, 2004 YS Yuktisastikā Cristina Anna Scherrer-Schaub: Yuktisas ikāvr tti: Commentaire t ` la soixantaine sur le raisonnement, ou, du vrai enseignement a de la causalité Institut belge des hautes études chinoises, Brussels, 1991 ŚS Śūnyatāsaptati “The Śūnyatāsaptati of Nāgārjuna,” chapter 3 of Fernando Tola and Carmen Dragonetti, On Voidness A Study... inconsistent When one is looking at the Madhyamaka arguments, it is often quite hard to attribute anything like a defensible 20 nāgārjuna’s madhyamaka philosophical theory to the proponents of svabhāva at all, since these often appear to be conveniently set up straw men.1 A final difficulty is the fact that the concept of svabhāva does not have any straightforward equivalent among the concepts discussed... Nāgārjuna’s analysis concentrates on two aspects: that of the identity or difference between cause and effect, and that of their temporal relation Each can be spelled out in different ways We can assume that cause and effect are fundamentally the same thing, or that they are different, or that they are related as part and whole Similarly, the cause can be regarded as preceding the effect, as following . the above edition.) MA Candrakīrti’s Madhyamakāvatāra MAB Candrakīrti’s Madhyamakāvatārabhās . ya Louis de la Vallée Poussin (ed.), Madhyamakāvatāra par Candrakīrti Bibliotheca Buddhica IX,. Bodhicaryāvatāra Louis de la Vallée Poussin (ed.), Bodhicaryāvatāra of Çāntideva, Asiatic Society of Bengal, Calcutta, 1907. xii abbreviations NS Nyāyasūtra Taranatha Nyaya-Tarkatirtha and Amarendramohan. Vaidalyaprakaran . a VP(S) Svavr . tti on the Vaidalyaprakaran . a Fernando Tola and Carmen Dragonetti, Nāgārjuna’s Refutation of Logic. Motilal Banarsidass, Delhi, 1995. RĀ Ratnāvalī Michael