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Nagarjuna

Also known as Nāgajjuna Bhikkhu, Nāgārjunācārya, Nāgārjuna Bodhisattva, Aacharya Nagarjuna, Nagarjun, Nagarjunacharya, Naga Arjuna, Nāgārjuna

Nāgārjuna (, ; ) was an Indian philosopher and Mahāyāna Buddhist monk of the Madhyamaka (Centrism, Middle Way) school. Nāgārjuna is widely considered one of the most important Buddhist philosophers. He was the founder of the Madhyamaka school of Buddhist philosophy and a defender of the Mahāyāna movement. His Mūlamadhyamakakārikā (Root Verses on Madhyamaka, MMK) is the most important text on the Madhyamaka philosophy of emptiness. The MMK inspired a large number of commentaries in Sanskrit, Chinese, Tibetan, Korean and Japanese and continues to be studied today.

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Nāgārjuna was an Indian Buddhist philosopher and monk who founded the Madhyamaka school of Buddhist thought, which emphasizes the concept of emptiness as a path to understanding reality. His major work, the Root Verses on Madhyamaka, became one of the most influential texts in Buddhist philosophy and continues to be studied and interpreted across multiple Asian traditions today.

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Born: 2nd cent.
Died: c. 250
Works: 40

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Quotes

“No suffering is self-caused.Nothing causes itself. If another is not self-made, How could suffering be caused by another? If suffering were caused by each, Suffering could be caused by both. Not caused by self or by other, How could suffering be uncaused?”
“"I, without grasping will pass beyond sorrow,And I will attain nirvāṇa," one says.Whoever grasps like thisHas great grasping.”
“If you think you see bothDestruction and becoming,Then you see destruction and becomingThrough impaired vision.”
“Due to having faith one relies on the practices,Due to having wisdom one truly knows.Of these two wisdom is the chief,Faith is its prerequisite.”
“"I am not, I will not be.I have not, I will not have."That frightens all the childishAnd extinguishes fear in the wise.”
“Even if you seek to harm an enemy,You should remove your own defects and cultivate good qualities.Through that you will help yourself,And the enemy will be displeased.”

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Key facts

Philosopher.name: Nāgārjuna
Philosopher.native_name: नागार्जुन
Philosopher.image: Nagarjuna with 84 mahasiddha cropped.jpg
Philosopher.image_size: 200px
Philosopher.caption: Painting of Nāgārjuna (18th century)
Philosopher.birth_date: c. 150 CE
Philosopher.birth_place: South India
Philosopher.death_date: c. 250 CE
Philosopher.death_place: India
Philosopher.occupation: Buddhist teacher, monk and philosopher
Philosopher.notable_works: Mūlamadhyamakakārikā
Philosopher.region: Eastern philosophy Indian philosophy
Philosopher.era: Ancient philosophy

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date of birth: 0150-00-00
date of death: 0250-00-00

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Contents

History
Background
Life
Traditional hagiography
Other Nāgārjunas
Works
''Mūlamadhyamakakārikā''
Major attributed works
Other attributed works
Attributions which are likely to be false
Philosophy
Sunyata
Two truths
Causality
Relativity
Comparative philosophy
Hinduism
Mahāyāna Buddhism
Pyrrhonism and its influence
Other
See also
References
Citations
Sources
External links

== History == thumb|right|A map of the Satavahana Kingdom, showing the location of Amaravathi, Guntur district|Amaravathi (where Nāgārjuna may have lived and worked according to Walser) and [[Vidarbha (the birthplace of Nāgārjuna according to Kumārajīva)]]