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082			_a294.385 D2804 M _b94
100			_aDavid J.Kalupahana
245		0	_aMūlamadhyamakakārikā of Nāgārjuna : the philosophy of the middle way : introduction, Sanskrit text, English translation and annotation. _hEnglish
250			_a1st
260			_aNew Delhi _bMotilal Banarsidass Publishers _c1991
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500			_aThis is a completely new translation of Nagarjuna's major work the Mulamadhyamakakarika, accompanied by a detailed annotation of each of the verses. The annotation identifies the metaphysical theories of the scholastics criticized by Nagarjuna and traces the source material and the arguments utilized in hisrefutation back to the early discourses of the Buddha. The introduction presents a completely new hypothesis about the nature of treatise. The work is a grand commentary on the Buddha's "Discourse to Katya Yana" (Kaccayanaqotta-sutta). The concluding part of the Introduction compares the teaching of the Buddha and Nagarjuna in regard to epistemology, ontology, ethics and philosophy of language indicating how the latter was making a determined attempt to reconstruct the Buddha's teachings in a very faithful manner, avoiding the substantialist metaphysics of the scholastics The book shows that Nagarjuna's ideas are neither original nor are they an advancement from the early Buddhist period. Nagarjuna is not a Mahayanist.
650			_aMādhyamika (Buddhism)
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