Nagarjuna initiated the Madhyamaka tradition in Mahayana Buddhism
that influenced Zen and the Tibetan Buddhist traditions. Over the
centuries, this tradition spawned in India two subtraditions and
syncretic combinations with another Buddhist tradition. These
developments will be traced in two volumes of translations of the
basic texts from Sanskrit into easily readable English for the
general educated public interested in Buddhism or philosophy. Texts
available today in Sanskrit have been translated, and texts no
longer extant in Sanskrit but existing in Tibetan or Chinese have
been summarized. Notes and separate essays explaining the
philosophical content are also included. Presented in this volume
are the philosophical writings of Nagarjuna's student Aryadeva (the
Four Hundred Verses on Yogic Deeds, the Hand Treatise, and a
summary of the One Hundred Verses), a song by Rahulabhadra (Song in
Praise of Perfected Wisdom), and selections from the principal
works of the two figures who were seen by later Tibetan Buddhists
as beginning the division of the Madhyamaka tradition -
Buddhapalita (summaries of selections from his commentary on
Nagarjuna's Fundamental Verses of the Middle Way) and Bhavaviveka
(the Summary of the Meaning of the Middle Way and selections from
the Verses on the Heart of the Middle Way).
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