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[[Image:Nagarjuna17.JPG|frame|'''Arya Nagarjuna''']]
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'''The four great logical arguments of the Middle Way''' (Tib. ''dbu ma'i gtan tshigs chen po bzhi'') are:
'''The four great logical arguments of the [[Middle Way]]''' ([[Wyl.]] ''dbu ma'i gtan tshigs chen po bzhi'') are:


*1.The investigation of the cause: the Diamond Splinters
#The investigation of the cause: the Diamond Splinters
*2.The investigation of the result: refuting existent or non-existent results
#The investigation of the result: refuting existent or non-existent results
*3.The investigation of the essential identity: ‘neither one nor many’
#The investigation of the essential identity: ‘neither one nor many’
*4.The investigation of all: the Great Interdependence
#The investigation of all: the Great Interdependence


Sometimes it is said that there are ‘five great arguments of the Middle Way,’ but, according to [[Mipham Rinpoche]], the fifth — the investigation of both the cause and the effect: refuting production according to the four alternatives — can be included within the first category, i.e., the investigation of the cause.
Sometimes it is said that there are ‘five great arguments of the Middle Way,’ but, according to [[Mipham Rinpoche]], the fifth — the investigation of both the cause and the effect: refuting production according to the four alternatives — can be included within the first category, i.e., the investigation of the cause.

Revision as of 16:43, 7 October 2008

Arya Nagarjuna

The four great logical arguments of the Middle Way (Wyl. dbu ma'i gtan tshigs chen po bzhi) are:

  1. The investigation of the cause: the Diamond Splinters
  2. The investigation of the result: refuting existent or non-existent results
  3. The investigation of the essential identity: ‘neither one nor many’
  4. The investigation of all: the Great Interdependence

Sometimes it is said that there are ‘five great arguments of the Middle Way,’ but, according to Mipham Rinpoche, the fifth — the investigation of both the cause and the effect: refuting production according to the four alternatives — can be included within the first category, i.e., the investigation of the cause.

See also Madhyamika.

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