Mūlamadhyamakaśāstra (Fundamental Verses on the Middle Way) 中論

Composed by Nāgārjuna, explained by Piṅgala, translated by Kumārajīva

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第 30 冊　No. 1564 中論 龍樹菩薩造 梵志青目釋 姚秦 鳩摩羅什譯 共 4 卷
Volume 30, No. 1564; Mūlamadhyamakaśāstra (Fundamental Verses on the Middle Way); Composed by Nāgārjuna, explained by Piṅgala, translated by Kumārajīva in the Later Qin in 4 scrolls

Notes

Sanskrit title and date 409 from Lancaster (2004, 'K 577')

English translations

  1. Garfield, Jay L 1995, The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way, Oxford University Press, USA.
  2. Jones, Richard H 2010, Nagarjuna, Buddhism's Most Important Philosopher: Plain English Translations and Summaries of Nagarjuna's Essential Philosophical Works, New York: Jackson Square Books.
  3. Nāgārjuna, Mark Siderits, and Shōryū Katsura 2013, Nagarjuna's Middle way: the Mulamadhyamakakarika, Boston: Wisdom Publications.

Parallels

  1. Nāgārjuna, Mark Siderits, and Shōryū Katsura 2013, Nagarjuna's Middle way: the Mulamadhyamakakarika, Boston : Wisdom Publications. Sanskrit.

Commentaries

  1. Buddhapālita and Ian Coghlan 2021, Buddhapālita’s Commentary on Nāgārjuna’s Middle Way:Buddhapālita-Mūlamadhyamaka-Vṛtti, Treasury of the Buddhist Sciences. New York: The American Institute of Buddhist Studies and Wisdom Publications.
  2. Blo-bzan-grags-pa, Tson-kha-pa. 2005. An Ocean of Reasoning: a Great Commentary on Nagarjuna's Mulamadhyamakakarika. New York: Oxford University Press.

Primary Source

Nāgārjuna, Piṅgala, and Kumārajīva (trans.), 《中論》 'Mūlamadhyamakaśāstra (Zhong Lun),' in Taishō shinshū Daizōkyō 《大正新脩大藏經》, in Takakusu Junjiro, ed., (Tokyo: Taishō Shinshū Daizōkyō Kankōkai, 1988), Vol. 30, No. 1564, Accessed 2016-10-16, http://tripitaka.cbeta.org/T30n1564.

References

  1. Lancaster, L.R. 2004, The Korean Buddhist Canon: A Descriptive Catalogue, http://www.acmuller.net/descriptive_catalogue.

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