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A Logical Analysis of the Mūlamadhyamakakārikā

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Sanskrit and Indian Studies

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It is the general view of Buddhism that one should escape from the world of transmigration (saṁsāra) and obtain enlightenment (nirvāna) by means of the path (mārga) of religious practices.1 Buddhists call transmigration the cause of enlightenment; enlightenment, the effect of religious practices. Nāgārjuna, who not only established the Mādhyamika philosophy but also determined the fundamental direction of Mahayana Buddhism, was also one of those Buddhists who endeavored to leave the world of transmigration by means of religious practices. He calls the world of transmigration the profane world (saṁvṛti); enlightenment, ultimate truth (paramārtha).

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  1. Cf. M. Tachikawa,’The Tantric doctrine of the Sa skya pa according to the Śel gyi me loṅ Acta Asiatica, no. 29 (1975), p. 95.

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  2. M. Saigusa, Indo Bukkyo Shisoshi (A History of Indian Buddhist Thought), Regulus Library, no. 46 (Daisan Bunmeisha, Tokyo, 1975), p. 180.

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  4. Cf.Buddhapālita. Mūlamadhyamakavṛtti,ed. by Max Walleser,Bibliotheca Buddhica XVI (S.-Petersburg, 1913), p. 23, 1.2; Prasannapadā, ed. by Poussin,Bibliotheca Buddhica IV (St.-Petersburg, 1913), p. 83, 1.11.

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  1. Musashi Tachikawa
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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Harvard University, USA

    M. Nagatomi

  2. All Souls College, Oxford, UK

    B. K. Matilal

  3. University of Toronto, Canada

    B. K. Matilal  & J. M. Masson  & 

  4. University of California, Berkeley, USA

    J. M. Masson

  5. University of Chicago, USA

    E. C. Dimock Jr.

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Tachikawa, M. (1979). A Logical Analysis of the Mūlamadhyamakakārikā . In: Nagatomi, M., Matilal, B.K., Masson, J.M., Dimock, E.C. (eds) Sanskrit and Indian Studies. Studies of Classical India, vol 2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-8941-2_9

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