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Nāgārjuna’s Twelve Gate Treatise

Translated with Introductory Essays, Comments, and Notes

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  • © 1982

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  1. Hsueh-li Cheng

    1. Dept. of Philosophy and Religious Studies, University of Hawaii at Hilo, USA

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Part of the book series: Studies of Classical India (STCI, volume 5)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Nāgārjuna and the Spread of His Teachings

    1. Nāgārjuna and the Spread of His Teachings

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      Pages 4-12

  3. San-Lun Approaches to Emptiness

    1. San-Lun Approaches to Emptiness

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      Pages 13-26

  4. The Nature and Value of the Text

    1. The Nature and Value of the Text

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      Pages 27-43

  5. Nāgārjuna’s Twelve Gate Treatise

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 45-52
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    2. Causal Conditions

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      Pages 53-58

    3. With or without Effect

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      Pages 59-69

    4. Conditions

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      Pages 70-71

    5. Characteristics

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      Pages 72-78

    6. With or without Characteristics

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      Pages 79-80

    7. Identity or Difference

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      Pages 81-84

    8. Being or Non-Being

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      Pages 85-88

    9. Nature

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      Pages 89-91

    10. Cause and Effect

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      Pages 92-92

    11. The Creator

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      Pages 93-100

    12. The Three Times

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      Pages 101-103

    13. Production

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      Pages 104-107

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 108-151
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About this book

MADHYAMIKA The hallmark of Miidhyamika philosophy is 'Emptiness', sunyata. This is not a view of reality. In fact it is emphatically denied that sunyata is a view of reality. If anybody falls into such an error as to construe emptiness as reality (or as a view, even the right view, of reality), he is only grasping the snake at the wrong end (Mk, 24.1 I)! Nftgfujuna in Mk, 24.18, has referred to at least four ways by which the same truth is conveyed: Whatever is dependent origination, we call it emptiness. That is (also) dependent conceptualization; that is, to be sure, the Middle Way. The two terms, pratitya samutpiida and upiidiiya prajnapti, which I have translated here- as 'dependent origination' and 'dependent conceptualization' need to be explained. The interdependence of everything (and under 'everything' we may include, following the Mftdhyamika, all items, ontological concepts, entities, theories, views, theses and even relative truths), i.e., the essential lack of independence of the origin (cf. utpiida) of everything proves or shows that everything is essentially devoid of its assumed essence or its independent 'own nature' or its 'self-existence' (cf. svabhiiva). Besides, our cognition of anything lacks independence in the same way. Our conception (cf. prajnapti) of something a essentially depends upon something b, and so on for everything ad infinitum.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Dept. of Philosophy and Religious Studies, University of Hawaii at Hilo, USA

    Hsueh-li Cheng

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Nāgārjuna’s Twelve Gate Treatise

  • Book Subtitle: Translated with Introductory Essays, Comments, and Notes

  • Authors: Hsueh-li Cheng

  • Series Title: Studies of Classical India

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-7775-4

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland 1982

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-277-1380-3Published: 31 July 1982

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-009-7777-8Published: 21 December 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-7775-4Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 152

  • Topics: Non-Western Philosophy

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