The Root Stanzas of the Middle Way: The Mulamadhyamakakarika

103 Pages·2016·7.75 MB·English

by  Nāgārjuna

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Buddha Shakyamuni
Bodhisattva Manjushri
Nagarjuna
T R S T M W
HE OOT TANZAS OF HE IDDLE AY
The Mulamadhyamakakarika
Nagarjuna
TRANSLATED FROM THE TIBETAN BY THE
Padmakara Translation Group

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Cover art: Cover painting of Nagarjuna by Livia Liverani used courtesy of Tsadra Foundation.
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Names: Nāgārjuna, active 2nd century, author. | Comitâe de traduction Padmakara, translator.
Title: The Root Stanzas of the Middle Way: the Mulamadhyamakakārikā / Nagarjuna; Translated from the
Tibetan by the Padmakara Translation Group.
Other titles: Madhyamakakārikā. English
Description: First Shambhala Edition. | Boulder: Shambhala, 2016. | “Previously published privately in a
limited edition in France by Editions Padmakara (2008).”
Identifiers: LCCN 2015041715 | eISBN: 978-1-9220-5998-7 | ISBN 9781611803426 (paperback) Subjects:
LCSH : Mādhyamika (Buddhism)—Early works to 1800. | BISAC: RELIGION / Buddhism / Sacred Writings. |
PHILOSOPHY / Buddhist.
Classification: LCC BQ 2792.E5 P33 2016 | DDC 294.3/85—dc23
LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015041715
The Padmakara Translation Group gratefully acknowledges the generous
support of the Tsadra Foundation in sponsoring the translation and preparation
of this book.
Contents
Translators’ Preface
The Root Stanzas of the Middle Way
Homage
1. An Examination of Conditions
2. An Examination of Motion
3. An Examination of the Sense Powers
4. An Examination of the Aggregates
5. An Examination of the Elements
6. An Examination of Desire and the Desirous
7. An Examination of Arising, Abiding, and Decay
8. An Examination of Agent and Action
9. An Examination of the Foregoing Entity
10. An Examination of Fire and Fuel
11. An Examination of Earlier and Later Limits
12. An Examination of Self-Production and Other-Production
13. An Examination of Compounded Things
14. An Examination of Contact
15. An Examination of Intrinsic Being
16. An Examination of Bondage and Release from Bondage