Candrakīrti

PersonType	Category:Classical Indian Authors
MainNameTib	ཟླ་བ་གྲགས་པ་
MainNameWylie	zla ba grags pa
MainNameSkt	Candrakīrti
YearBirth	c. 600
YearDeath	c. 650
ReligiousAffiliation	Nalanda; Prāsaṅgika Madhyamaka
StudentOf	Nāgārjuna  ·  Āryadeva
BDRC	https://www.tbrc.org/#!rid=P5782
IsInGyatsa	No
PosBuNayDefProv	Provisional
PosBuNayDefProvNotes	"Buddha nature was taught merely as a means of temporarily easing ordinary persons of their fear os selflessness and of attracting non-Buddhists." Kano. K., Buddha-Nature and Emptiness, p. 9.
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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.

The nonexistence of the self as a permanent, unchanging entity.