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Buddhapalita (Skt. Buddhapālita; Tib. སངས་རྒྱས་བསྐྱངས་, Sangyé Kyang, Wyl. sangs rgyas bskyangs) — the great Indian scholar who is acknowledged as the founder of the Prasangika Madhyamika. He composed a commentary to Nagarjuna's Mulamadhyamaka-karika, known simply as the Mūlamadhyamakavṛtti, or the 'Buddhapalita' commentary. Buddhapalita is counted among the Seventeen Nalanda Masters.

Buddhapalita, Buddhapalita's Commentary on Nagarjuna's Middle Way, introduction and translation by Ian James Coghlan (Wisdom Publications, 2021)
David Seyfort Ruegg, The Literature of the Madhyamaka School of Philosophy in India, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1981
Lobsang N. Tsonawa, Indian Buddhist Pandits from The Jewel Garland of Buddhist History, Dharamsala: Library of Tibetan Works and Archives, 1985.

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-'''Buddhapalita''' (Skt. ''Buddhapālita''; Tib. [[སངས་རྒྱས་བསྐྱངས་]], ''Sangyé Kyang''; [[Wyl.]] ''sangs rgyas bskyangs'') - the great Indian scholar who is acknowledged as the founder of the [[Prasangika Madhyamika]]. He composed a commentary to [[Nagarjuna]]'s ''[[Mulamadhyamaka-karika]]'', known simply as the ''Mūlamadhyamakavṛtti'', or the 'Buddhapalita' commentary.
+'''Buddhapalita''' (Skt. ''Buddhapālita''; Tib. [[སངས་རྒྱས་བསྐྱངས་]], ''Sangyé Kyang'', [[Wyl.]] ''sangs rgyas bskyangs'') — the great Indian scholar who is acknowledged as the founder of the [[Prasangika Madhyamika]]. He composed a commentary to [[Nagarjuna]]'s ''[[Mulamadhyamaka-karika]]'', known simply as the ''Mūlamadhyamakavṛtti'', or the 'Buddhapalita' commentary. Buddhapalita is counted among the [[Seventeen Nalanda Masters]].
 ==Further Reading==
+*Buddhapalita, ''Buddhapalita's Commentary on Nagarjuna's Middle Way'', introduction and translation by Ian James Coghlan (Wisdom Publications, 2021)
 *David Seyfort Ruegg, ''The Literature of the Madhyamaka School of Philosophy in India'', Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1981
 *Lobsang N. Tsonawa, ''Indian Buddhist Pandits from The Jewel Garland of Buddhist History'', Dharamsala: Library of Tibetan Works and Archives, 1985.