Tauscher, H.

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Helmut Tauscher

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Helmut Tauscher is a research scholar at the Institute for South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies in the Department of Tibetan and Buddhist Studies at Vienna University. He is a life-member of the Drepung Loseling Library Society in Mundgod, Karnataka, India and since 1991 has been engaged in a research project entitled "Western Tibetan Manuscripts, 11-14 c." He is the author of numerous articles and book-length works on Madhyamaka, including Die Lehre von den Zwei Wirklichkeiten in Tsoń kha pas Madhyamaka-Werken (1995) and an edition of Phya pa chos kyi seng ge's dBu ma shar gsum gyi stong thun (1999).

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.