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Nagarjuna's Twelve Gate Treatise - Translated with Introductory Essays, Comments, and Notes (Hardcover, 1982 ed.)
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Nagarjuna's Twelve Gate Treatise - Translated with Introductory Essays, Comments, and Notes (Hardcover, 1982 ed.)
Series: Studies of Classical India, 5
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MADHYAMIKA The hallmark of Miidhyamika philosophy is 'Emptiness',
sunyata. This is not a view of reality. In fact it is emphatically
denied that sunyata is a view of reality. If anybody falls into
such an error as to construe emptiness as reality (or as a view,
even the right view, of reality), he is only grasping the snake at
the wrong end (Mk, 24.1 I)! Nftgfujuna in Mk, 24.18, has referred
to at least four ways by which the same truth is conveyed: Whatever
is dependent origination, we call it emptiness. That is (also)
dependent conceptualization; that is, to be sure, the Middle Way.
The two terms, pratitya samutpiida and upiidiiya prajnapti, which I
have translated here- as 'dependent origination' and 'dependent
conceptualization' need to be explained. The interdependence of
everything (and under 'everything' we may include, following the
Mftdhyamika, all items, ontological concepts, entities, theories,
views, theses and even relative truths), i.e., the essential lack
of independence of the origin (cf. utpiida) of everything proves or
shows that everything is essentially devoid of its assumed essence
or its independent 'own nature' or its 'self-existence' (cf.
svabhiiva). Besides, our cognition of anything lacks independence
in the same way. Our conception (cf. prajnapti) of something a
essentially depends upon something b, and so on for everything ad
infinitum.
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