Mūlamadhyamakakārikā of NāgārjunaThis is completely new translation of Nagarjuna's major work, accompanied by a detailed annotation of each of the verses. The annotations identify the metaphysical theories of the scholastics criticized by Nagarjuna, and trace the source material and arguments utilized in his refutation back to the early discourses of the Buddha. |
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Contents
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| 8 | |
| 16 | |
| 23 | |
| 31 | |
| 81 | |
Dedicatory Verses | 101 |
Examination of the Faculty of | 132 |
Examination of Bondage and Release Bandhanamokṣaparīkṣā | 235 |
Examination of the Fruit of Action Karmaphalaparīkṣā | 243 |
Examination of Self Atmaparīkṣā | 263 |
Examination of Time Kālaparīkṣā | 275 |
Examination of Harmony Samagriparīkṣā | 280 |
Examination of Occurrence and Dissolution Sambhavavibhavaparīkṣā | 292 |
Examination of the Tathāgata Tathāgataparīkṣā | 302 |
Examination of Perversions Viparyāsaparīkṣā | 312 |
The Examination of the Conditioned | 159 |
Examination of the Prior Entity Purvaparīkṣā | 188 |
Examination of Fire and Fuel Agnindhanaparīkṣā | 195 |
Examination of the Prior and Posterior Extremities Purvāparakoțiparīkṣā | 206 |
Examination of Suffering Duḥkhaparikṣā | 211 |
Examination of Action and the Agent Samskāraparīkṣā | 217 |
Examination of Association Samsargaparīkṣā | 224 |
Examination of Selfnature Svabhāvaparīkṣā | 228 |
Examination of the Noble Truths Aryasatyaparīkṣā | 326 |
Examination of Freedom Nirvāṇaparīkṣā | 355 |
Examination of the Twelve Causal Factors Dvādasāngaparkṣā | 370 |
Examination of Views Drstiparīkṣā | 377 |
INDEX TO THE KĀRIKĀ | 393 |
Verbal Forms | 402 |
General Index | 406 |
Common terms and phrases
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Popular passages
Page 60 - The present to which the datum refers is really a part of the past — a recent past — delusively given as being a time that intervenes between the past and the future.
Page 35 - In short, the practically cognized present is no knife-edge, but a saddle-back, with a certain breadth of its own on which we sit perched, and from which we look in two directions into time.
Page 88 - ... facie respectable, and the best simply imaginary world would be one in which every demand was gratified as soon as made. Such a world would, however, have to have a physical constitution entirely different from that of the one which we inhabit. It would need not only a space, but a time, of n-dimensions...
Page 47 - ... getting" each successive moment of experience, as the sessile sea-anemone on its rock receives whatever nourishment the wash of the waves may bring. With concepts we go in quest of the absent, meet the remote, actively turn this way or that, bend our experience, and make it tell us whither it is bound. We change its order, run it backwards, bring far bits together and separate near bits, jump about over its surface instead of plowing through its continuity, string its items on as many ideal diagrams...
Page 199 - He, verily, had no delight. Therefore he who is alone has no delight. He desired a second. He became as large as a woman and a man in close embrace.
Page 93 - Philosophy simply puts everything before us, and neither explains nor deduces anything. Since everything lies open to view, there is nothing to explain. For what is hidden, for example, is of no interest to us. One might give the name 'philosophy' to what is possible before all new discoveries and inventions.
Page 89 - It would need not only a space, but a time, "of limensions," to include all the acts and experiences incompatible with one another here below, which would then go on in conjunction — such as spending our money, yet growing rich; taking our holiday, yet getting ahead with our work; shooting and fishing, yet doing no hurt to the beasts; gaining no end of experience, yet keeping our youthful freshness of heart; and the like.
Page 47 - The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of a conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
Page 200 - How can he unite with me after having produced me from himself?" Well, let me hide myself. She became a cow, the other became a bull and was united with her and from that cows were born. The one became a mare, the other a stallion.
Page 60 - At the instant of the termination of such series, no part of the time measured by them seems to be a past. Time, then, considered relatively to human apprehension, consists of four parts, viz., the obvious past, the specious present, the real present, and the future. Omitting the specious present, it consists of three...
Bibliographic information
| Title | Mūlamadhyamakakārikā of Nāgārjuna |
| Authors | Nāgārjuna, David J. Kalupahana |
| Editor | David J. Kalupahana |
| Translated by | David J. Kalupahana |
| Contributor | David J. Kalupahana |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Motilal Banarsidass Publ., 1991 |
| ISBN | 812080774X, 9788120807747 |
| Length | 412 pages |
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