Mulamadhyamaka-karika

Mulamadhyamika-karika (Skt.), uma tsawa sherab (Tib.), 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:

1. Examination of Conditions
2. Examination of Motion
3. Examination of the Senses
4. Examination of the Skandhas
5. Examination of the Dhatus
6. Examination of Desire and the Desirous
7. Examination of the Conditioned
8. Examination of the Agent and Action
9. Examination of the Prior Entity
10. Examination of Fire and Fuel
11. Examination of the Initial and Final Limits
12. Examination of Suffering
13. Examination of Compounded Phenomena
14. Examination of Connection
15. Examination of Essence
16. Examination of Bondage
17. Examination of Actions and their Fruits
18. Examination of Self and Entities
19. Examination of Time
20. Examination of Combination
21. Examination of Becoming and Destruction
22. Examination of the Tathagata
23. Examination of Errors
24. Examination of the Four Noble Truths
25. Examination of Nirvana
26. Examination of the Twelve Links
27. Examination of Views

See also Collection of Middle Way Reasoning