[MD] The Intellectual Gauntlet

[MarshaV]

Nagarjuna, who lived in South India in approximately the second centruy CE, 
is undoubedly the most important, influential, and widely studied Mahayana 
Buddhist philosopher.  His many works include texts addressed to lay 
audiences, letters of advice to kings, and a set of penetrating metaphysical 
and epistemological treasties.  His greatest philosophical work, the 
Mulamadhyamakakarika -- read and studied by philosophers in all major 
Buddhist schools of Tibet, China, Japan, and Korea -- is one of the most 
influential works in the history of Indian philosophy.  Now, in 'The 
Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way', Jay L. Garfield provides a clear and 
eminently readable translation of Nagarjuna's seminal work, offering those 
with little or no prior knowledge of Buddhist philosophy a view into the 
profound logic of the Mulamadhyamakakarika.  He offers an illuminating 
verse-by-verse commentary that explains Nagarjuna's positions and arguments 
in the language of Western philosophers such as Sextus, Hume, and 
Wittgenstein.

An accessible translation of the foundational text for all Mahayana 
Buddhism, 'The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way' will offer insight to 
all those interested in the nature of reality.

http://www.amazon.com/Fundamental-Wisdom-Middle-Way-Mulamadhyamakakarika/dp/0195093364/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1216579805&sr=1-1















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