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Nagarjuna's Madhyamaka: A Philosophical Introduction Jan Westerhoff
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

150 – 250 C.E.) was arguably the most influential Indian Buddhist thinker after Gautama Buddha, who founded the Madhyamaka (Middle Way) school of Mahāyāna (Great Vehicle) Buddhism. The Madhyamaka school emerged in India in the second or third century of the Common Era in the works of the philosopher Nagarjuna. The Indian philosopher Acharya Nagarjuna (c. This essay will argue against the second century CE Buddhist philosopher Nagarjuna's central theory that all phenomena are empty of svabhava, or independent existence. The first major school of Mahayana philosophy is known as the Madhyamaka, or “Middle Way School”. From a study of his writings, it is clear that Nagarjuna was conversant with both the Abhidharma-based philosophies of his day and the emerging Mahāyāna tradition, as well as non-Buddhist schools of thought (Ray 2002, . Amazon.com: An Introduction to Madhyamaka Philosophy. And these ideas received their first philosophical formulation, in the work of Madhyamaka's founder Nagarjuna, in about the mid-second century CE. About the book, from the publisher: The Indian philosopher Acarya Nagarjuna (c. New from Oxford University Press: Nagarjuna's Madhyamaka: A Philosophical Introduction by Jan Westerhoff. Book, Jan Westerhoff offers a systematic account of Nagarjuna's philosophical. Nagarjuna's Madhyamaka: A Philosophical Introduction. The So-Called Narrative View of the Self (from Nagarjuna's Madhyamaka, A Philosophical Introduction, by Jan Westerhoff, Oxford 2009). Buddhism: Introducing the Buddhist Experience.