Difference between revisions of "Nāgārjuna"
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|TeacherOf=Śavaripa; Āryadeva | |TeacherOf=Śavaripa; Āryadeva | ||
|BdrcLink=https://www.tbrc.org/#!rid=P4954 | |BdrcLink=https://www.tbrc.org/#!rid=P4954 | ||
| − | |BnwShortPersonBio=Nāgārjuna was the c. 2nd | + | |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''. |
|IsInGyatsa=No | |IsInGyatsa=No | ||
|ArchivistNotes=Generally speaking this can refer to, at least, two individuals: the early philosopher who founded the Madhyamaka school and a later mahāsiddha counted in Tibetan as one of the rig 'dzin brgyad. In terms of the RTZ, this figure generally refers to the later Nāgārjuna. | |ArchivistNotes=Generally speaking this can refer to, at least, two individuals: the early philosopher who founded the Madhyamaka school and a later mahāsiddha counted in Tibetan as one of the rig 'dzin brgyad. In terms of the RTZ, this figure generally refers to the later Nāgārjuna. | ||
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Revision as of 18:03, 24 October 2019
ཀླུ་སྒྲུབ་
| Wylie | klu sgrub |
|---|---|
| Romanized Sanskrit | Nāgārjuna |
Painting by Pema Namdol Thaye Courtesy of Padma Studios
Other names
- འཕགས་པ་ཀླུ་སྒྲུབ་
- སློབ་དཔོན་ཆེན་པོ་ནཱ་གརྫུ་ན་
- སློབ་དཔོན་ཀླུ་སྒྲུབ་
- 'phags pa klu sgrub
- slob dpon chen po nA gardzu na
- slob dpon klu sgrub
Alternate names
- Ārya Nāgārjuna
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Notes
Generally speaking this can refer to, at least, two individuals: the early philosopher who founded the Madhyamaka school and a later mahāsiddha counted in Tibetan as one of the rig 'dzin brgyad. In terms of the RTZ, this figure generally refers to the later Nāgārjuna.