Name/Title
The fundamental wisdom of the middle way : Nagarjuna's Mulamadhyamakakarika / translation and commentary by Jay L. GarfieldEntry/Object ID
BQ2792 .E5G37 1995Description
Back cover: The Buddhist saint Nagarjuna, who lived in South India in approximately the second century CE, is undoubtedly the most important, influential, and widely studied Mahayana Buddhist philosopher. His many works include texts addressed to lay audiences, letters of advice to kings, and a set of penetrating metaphysical and epistemological treatises. His greatest philosophical work, the Mulamadhyamikakarika -- read and studied by philosophers in all major Buddhist schools of Tibet, China, Japan, and Korea --is one of the most influential works in the history of Indian philosophy. Now, in "The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way", Jay L. Garfield provides a clear and eminently readable translation of Nagarjuna's seminal work, offering those with little or no prior knowledge of Buddhist philosophy a view into the profound logic of the Mulamadhyamikakarika. He offers an illuminating verse-by-verse commentary that explains Nagarjuna's positions and arguments in the language of Western metaphysics and epistemology, and connects Nagarjuna's concerns to those of Western philosophers such as Sextus, Hume, and Wittgenstein.Book Details
Author
NagarjunaPublication Translator
Jay L. GarfieldPublisher
Oxford University PressDate Published
1995Publication Subjects
Madhyamakakārikā (Nāgārjuna)
Mādhyamika (Buddhism) -- Early works to 1800
Nāgārjuna, active 2nd centuryCall No.
BQ2792 .E5G37 1995ISBN
0195093364