Nagarjuna emptiness

An Indian Buddhist scholar-yogi, who was a disciple of Nagarjuna and author of several texts on Madhyamaka philosophy.

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In Tibetan Buddhism , he is regarded as one of the six ornaments a group of esteemed India scholars. After Nagarjuna, he is considered to be the next most important figure of the Indian Madhyamaka school. Many Western scholars identify two Aryadeva's: one a Madhyamaka scholar and the other a tantric yogi. It is available in fragmentary Sanskrit, in Xuanzang 's Chinese translation of the second part only, and in a full Tibetan translation.

There also exists a complete commentary to this text by Chandrakirti which is only extant in Tibetan.

Mādhyamika and yogacara buddhism

But this attribution has been questioned by some scholars according to Seyfort Ruegg. Sefort Ruegg states it is likely by Dignaga. According to David Seyfort Ruegg :. In the Chinese canon there is found a treatise attributed to the Bodhisattva Aryadeva on explanations of nirvana given by twenty sectarian teachers mentioned in the Lankavatarasutra Taisho , translated in the first part of the 6th century by Bodhiruci.

A useful summary of this tradition, its literature, and historiography may be found in Wedemeyer From Encyclopedia of Buddhism. Himalayan Bridge. ISBN Categories : Indian Buddhists Madhyamaka Madhyamaka scholars. Navigation menu Personal tools Log in.