Buddhapālita (c. 470-?)
སངས་རྒྱས་བསྐྱངས། sangs rgyas bskyangs

 

 

Biography

Berzin Archives. “Buddhapalita.” Study Buddhism. studybuddhism.com

“Buddhapalita.” Tibetan Buddhist Encyclopedia. tibetanbuddhistencyclopedia.com

“Buddhapalita.” Rigpa Wiki. rigpawiki.org

Works

Buddhapālita-Mūlamadhyamaka-Vṛtti
Commentary on Nāgārjuna’s Mulamadhyamaka-karika (Root verses of Middle Way)
dbu ma rtsa ba’i ’grel pa buddha pā li ta
དབུ་མ་རྩ་བའི་འགྲེལ་པ་བུདྡྷ་པཱ་ལི་ཏ་
Tibetan

  • Akira Saito and Australian National University. 1984. A Study of the Buddhapālita-Mūlamadhyamaka-Vṛtti. Dissertation. Australian National University. archive.org [translation of chapters 1-15]
  • Buddhapālita, and Ian Coghlan, trans. 2021. Buddhapālita’s Commentary on Nāgārjuna’s Middle Way : (Buddhapālita-Mūlamadhyamaka-Vṛtti). American Institute of Buddhist Studies; Wisdom Publications. JABL (Complete translation of Madhyamakavrtti by Ian Coghlan)

Noted Scholars

William L Ames, Ian Coghlan, Akira Saito


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