Nāgārjuna

 

PersonType	Category:Classical Indian Authors Category:Authors of Sanskrit Works
MainNameTib	ཀླུ་སྒྲུབ་
MainNameWylie	klu sgrub
MainNameSkt	Nāgārjuna
AltNamesTib	འཕགས་པ་ཀླུ་སྒྲུབ་  ·  སློབ་དཔོན་ཆེན་པོ་ནཱ་གརྫུ་ན་  ·  སློབ་དཔོན་ཀླུ་སྒྲུབ་
AltNamesWylie	'phags pa klu sgrub  ·  slob dpon chen po nA gardzu na  ·  slob dpon klu sgrub
AltNamesOther	Ārya Nāgārjuna
YearBirth	ca. 2nd century
TeacherOf	Śavaripa  ·  Āryadeva
BDRC	https://www.tbrc.org/#!rid=P4954
IsInGyatsa	No
BnwShortPersonBio	Nāgārjuna was the c. 2nd century founder of the Madhyamaka school of Buddhist philosophy. He is eulogized in the Tibetan tradition as one of the group of great Indian scholars known as the Six Ornaments, though he is equally renown in the Chinese and other East Asian Buddhist traditions. He was the first major Mahāyāna philosopher and his Mūlamadhyamakakārikā became the standard exposition for the Mahāyāna view of emptiness (śūnyatā) as presented in the Prajñāpāramitā Sūtras.
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Along with Yogācāra, it is one of the two major philosophical schools of Mahāyāna Buddhism. Founded by Nāgārjuna around the second century CE, it is rooted in the Prajñāpāramitā Sūtras, though its initial exposition was presented in Nāgārjuna's Mūlamadhyamakakārikā.

Mahāyāna, or the Great Vehicle, refers to the system of Buddhist thought and practice which developed around the beginning of Common Era, focusing on the pursuit of the state of full enlightenment of the Buddha through the realization of the wisdom of emptiness and the cultivation of compassion.

The state of being empty of an innate nature due to a lack of independently existing characteristics.