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'''Mulamadhyamika-karika''' (Skt. ''Prajñā-nāma-mūlamadhyamakakārikā''; Tib. ''Uma Tsawa Sherab''; [[Wyl.]] ''dbu ma rtsa ba shes rab''), ''The Root Verses on the Wisdom of the Middle Way''. The most famous and important treatise on [[Madhyamika]] philosophy, composed by the great master [[Nagarjuna]]. | '''Mulamadhyamika-karika''' (Skt. ''Prajñā-nāma-mūlamadhyamakakārikā''; Tib. [[དབུ་མ་རྩ་བ་ཤེས་རབ་]], ''Uma Tsawa Sherab''; [[Wyl.]] ''dbu ma rtsa ba shes rab''), ''The Root Verses on the Wisdom of the Middle Way''. The most famous and important treatise on [[Madhyamika]] philosophy, composed by the great master [[Nagarjuna]]. | ||
==Outline== | ==Outline== | ||
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#Examination of Views<br> | #Examination of Views<br> | ||
==Tibetan Text== | |||
*{{TBRCW|O1GS6011|O1GS60111GS36069$W23703|དབུ་མ་རྩ་བའི་ཚིག་ལེའུར་བྱས་པ་ཤེས་རབ་, ''dbu ma rtsa ba'i tshig le'ur byas pa shes rab''}} | |||
==Commentaries== | ==Commentaries== | ||
===Indian=== | ===Indian=== | ||
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===Tibetan=== | ===Tibetan=== | ||
*[[Khenpo Shenga]], ''dbu ma rtsa ba'i tshig le'ur byas pa shes rab ces bya ba'i mchan 'grel'' | *[[Khenpo Shenga]] | ||
*[[Mipham Rinpoche]], ''dbu ma rtsa ba'i mchan | :{{TBRCW|O01DG10852|O01DG10852902$W23198|དབུ་མ་རྩ་བའི་ཚིག་ལེའུར་བྱས་པ་ཤེས་རབ་ཅེས་བྱ་བའི་མཆན་འགྲེལ་, ''dbu ma rtsa ba'i tshig le'ur byas pa shes rab ces bya ba'i mchan 'grel''}} | ||
*[[Mipham Rinpoche]] | |||
:{{TBRCW|O01CT0021|O01CT0021d1e43$W23468|དབུ་མ་རྩ་བའི་མཆན་འགྲེལ་གནས་ལུགས་རབ་གསལ་ཀླུ་དབང་དགོངས་རྒྱན་, ''dbu ma rtsa ba'i mchan 'grel gnas lugs rab gsal klu dbang dgongs rgyan''}} | |||
==Translations== | ==Translations== | ||
Revision as of 11:01, 2 February 2011
Mulamadhyamika-karika (Skt. Prajñā-nāma-mūlamadhyamakakārikā; Tib. དབུ་མ་རྩ་བ་ཤེས་རབ་, Uma Tsawa Sherab; Wyl. dbu ma rtsa ba shes rab), The Root Verses on the Wisdom of the Middle Way. The most famous and important treatise on Madhyamika philosophy, composed by the great master Nagarjuna.
Outline
There are twenty-seven chapters:
- Examination of Conditions
- Examination of Motion
- Examination of the Senses
- Examination of the Skandhas
- Examination of the Dhatus
- Examination of Desire and the Desirous
- Examination of the Conditioned
- Examination of the Agent and Action
- Examination of the Prior Entity
- Examination of Fire and Fuel
- Examination of the Initial and Final Limits
- Examination of Suffering
- Examination of Compounded Phenomena
- Examination of Connection
- Examination of Essence
- Examination of Bondage
- Examination of Actions and their Fruits
- Examination of Self and Entities
- Examination of Time
- Examination of Combination
- Examination of Becoming and Destruction
- Examination of the Tathagata
- Examination of Errors
- Examination of the Four Noble Truths
- Examination of Nirvana
- Examination of the Twelve Links
- Examination of Views
Tibetan Text
Commentaries
Indian
- Chandrakirti, Clear Words (Skt. Prasannapada)
Tibetan
Translations
- Garfield, Jay. The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way. Oxford University Press 1995.
- Inada, Kenneth. Nagarjuna: A Translation of his Mulamadhyamikakarika. Tokyo: The Hokuseido Press, 1970
- Kalupahana, David. Nagarjuna: The Philosophy of the Middle Way. Albany: State University, 1986
- Nagarjuna. The Root Stanzas on the Middle Way (translated by Padmakara Translation Group). Padmakara, 2008
- Streng, Frederik. Emptiness: A Study in Religious Meaning. Nashville: Abdingdon Press 1967
Further Reading
- Khenpo Tsültrim Gyamtso, The Sun of Wisdom, translated and edited by Ari Goldfield, Boston: Shambhala Publications, 2003
Internal Links
External Links
- Chapters 18, 24 & 26 translated into French and English by the Padmakara Translation Group and published on the occasion of the teachings by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Nantes, 15—20 August 2008. Available at www.oceandesagesse.org