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Mādhyamaka ("middle way" or "centrism"; Chinese: 中觀見; pinyin: Zhōngguān Jìan; Tibetan: དབུ་མ་པ་ ; dbu ma pa),
otherwise known as Śūnyavāda ("the emptiness...
- 250 CE) was an
Indian monk and Mahāyāna
Buddhist philosopher of the
Madhyamaka (Centrism,
Middle Way) school. He is
widely considered one of the most...
- East
Asian Madhyamaka is the
Buddhist tradition in East Asia
which represents the
Indian Madhyamaka (Chung-kuan)
system of thought. In
Chinese Buddhism...
- most
influential traditions of
Mahayana Buddhism in India,
along with
Madhyamaka. The
compound Yogācāra
literally means "practitioner of yoga", or "one...
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emptiness was
further developed by the
Abhidharma schools, Nāgārjuna and the
Mādhyamaka school, an
early Mahāyāna school.
Emptiness ("positively" interpreted)...
- the
Tibetan Buddhist tradition. Śāntarakṣita was a
philosopher of the
Madhyamaka school who
studied at
Nalanda monastery under Jñānagarbha, and became...
- of
conventional truth within the
presentation of
Madhyamaka. Svātantrika is a
category of
Madhyamaka viewpoints attributed primarily to the 6th-century...
- movement, and
scholastic traditions such as Prajñāpāramitā, Sarvāstivāda,
Mādhyamaka, Sautrāntika, Vaibhāṣika, Buddha-nature, Yogācāra, and more. One recurrent...
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approach became later known as
Prasangika Madhyamaka. Bhāviveka was
critical of Buddhapalita's
approach to
Madhyamaka.
Inspired by the
buddhist logician Dignāga...
- Dignāga and Dharmakīrti, the
Cittamatra philosophy of the mind, and the
madhyamaka philosophy of Nāgārjuna and Candrakīrti.
Central to his philosophical...
