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A complete translation of Nāgārjuna's major work, the Madhyamaka-kārikās, along with Candrakīrti's Prasannapadā, is now available: Th. Stcherbatsky, The Conception of Buddhist Nirvā \(\mathop n\limits_. \) a, Leningrad, 1927 (chapters I, XXV).
St. Schayer, Ausgewählte Kapitel aus der Prasannapadā, W. Krakowie, 1931 (chapters V, XII–XVI).
St. Schayer, ‘Feuer und Brennstoff’, Rocznik Orientalistyczny VII, 1931, pp. 26–52 (chapter X).
E. Lamotte, Le Traité de l'acte de Vasubandhu, Karmasiddhiprakara \(\mathop n\limits_. \) a, Bruges, 1936 (extrait des Mélanges chinois et bouddhiques publiés par L'Institut Belge des Hautes Etudes Chinoises, Vol. IV), pp. 121–144 (chapter XVII).
J. W. de Jong, Cinq chapitres de la Prasannapadā, Paris, 1949 (chapters XVIII–XXII).
J. May, Candrakīrti: Prasannapadā Madhyamakav \(\underset{\raise0.3em\hbox{$\smash{\scriptscriptstyle\cdot}$}}{r}\) tti, Paris, 1959 (chapters II–IV, VI–IX, XI, XXIII–XXIV, XXVI–XXVII). This work contains also an important bibliography.
Besides, R. Gnoli's Nāgārjuna: Madhyamaka Kārikā, in Italian (Torino, 1961), gives a complete translation of Nāgārjuna's Kārikās, and E. Frauwallner's Die Philosophie des Buddhismus (Berlin, 1956), pp. 178ff., 243ff., gives a translation of the chapters I, XV, XVIII, XXIV and XXV of Nāgārjuna's Kārikās, and of part of chapter I of Candrakīrti's Prasannapadā.
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Bhattacharya, K. The dialectical method of Nāgārjuna. J Indian Philos 1, 217–261 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00162413
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