Nāgārjuna (active 2nd century)
ཀླུ་སྒྲུབ། klu sgrub
Page Sections:
- Biography
- On Nāgārjuna’s Text and Authority
- Noted Scholars and Scholarship
- Works
Biography
- Berzin Archives. “Nagarjuna.” Study Buddhism. studybuddhism.com
- “Nagarjuna” Rigpa Wiki. rigpawiki.com
- Westerhoff, Jan. 2022. “Nāgārjuna.” Edward N. Salta, ed. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Summer ed. plato.stanford.edu
On Nāgārjuna’s Texts and Authenticity
- Lindtner, Chr. 1987. Nagarjuniana: Studies in the Writings and Philosophy of Nāgārjuna. Motilal Banarsidass. JABL
Noted Scholars and Scholarship
Bstan’dzin-rgya-mthso, Dalai Lama XIV; Dan Arnold; Jay Garfield; Christian Lindtner; David Seyfort Ruegg; Jan Westerhoff
- Murti, T. R. V. 2016. The Central Philosophy of Buddhism: A Study of the Mādhyamika System. Allen & Unwin. JABL
- Walser, Joseph. 2005. Nagarjuna in Context Mahayana Buddhism and Early Indian Culture. Columbia University Press. JABL
- Westerhoff, Jan. 2009. Nāgārjuna’s Madhyamaka: A Philosophical Introduction. Oxford University Press. JABL
Works
Six Collected Works of Reasoning (rigs tshogs drug)
- Nāgārjuna and David J Kalupahana. 1986. The Philosophy of the Middle Way = Mūlamadhyamakakārikā. State University of New York Press. JABL
- Nāgārjuna and Jay L Garfield. 1995. The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way : Nāgārjuna’s Mūlamadhyamakakārikā. Oxford University Press. JABL
- Nāgārjuna and Kenneth K. Inada. 1993. Nagarjuna, a Translation of His Mulamadhyamakakarika with an Introductory Essay. Sri Satguru Publications. JABL
- Nāgārjuna, Mark Siderits, and Katsura Shōryū. 2013. Nāgārjuna’s Middle Way: Mūlamadhyamakākarikā. Wisdom Publications. JABL
See also commentaries by Buddhapālita, Candrakīrti, Bhāvaviveka, Tsong-kha-pa
(2) Sixty Verses of Reasoning
Yuktiṣaṣṭikākārika
rigs pa drug cu pa
རིགས་པ་དྲུག་ཅུ་པའི་ཚིག་ལེའུར་བྱས་པ་
- Nāgārjuna, Joseph John Loizzo, Robert A. F Thurman, Columbia University, and Tibet House. 2007. Nāgārjuna’s Reason Sixty with Chandrakīrti’s Reason Sixty Commentary. American Institute of Buddhist Studies at Columbia University with Columbia University’s Center for Buddhist Studies and Tibet House. JABL
- Lindtner, Chr. 1987. Nagarjuniana: Studies in the Writings and Philosophy of Nāgārjuna. Motilal Banarsidass. JABL
- Nāgārjuna and Chr. Lindtner. 1986. Master of Wisdom: Writings of the Buddhist Master Nāgārjuna. Dharma Publishing JABL
(3) Seventy Verses on Voidness
Śūnyatāsaptatikārikā
stong pa nyid bdun cu pa’i tshig le’ur byes pa
སྟོང་པ་ཉིད་བདུན་ཅུ་པའི་ཚིག་ལེའུར་བྱས་པ་
Tibetan
- Komito, David Ross and Sonam Rinchen. “Nagarjuna’s Seventy Stanzas on Emptiness.” (dhammapk)
- Komito, David Ross, Sonam Rinchen, Tenzin Dorjee, and Nāgārjuna. 1987. Nagarjuna’s Seventy Stanzas: A Buddhist Psychology of Emptiness. Snow Lion. JABL
- Lindtner, Chr. 1987. Nagarjuniana: Studies in the Writings and Philosophy of Nāgārjuna. Motilal Banarsidass. JABL
- Nāgārjuna and Chr. Lindtner. 1986. Master of Wisdom: Writings of the Buddhist Master Nāgārjuna. Dharma Pub. JABL
(4) Refutation of Objections
Vigrahavyāvartanī
rtsod pa zlog pa
རྩོད་པ་ཟློག་པ་
- Root text (translated from the original Sanskrit with intro and notes by Bhattacharya; text critically edited by Johnston and Kunst):
Nāgārjuna, Kamaleswar Bhattacharya (trans.), E. H. Hamilton, and Arnold Kunst (eds). 2002. The Dialectical Method of Nāgārjuna = Vigrahavyāvartanī. Motilal Banarsidass. JABL - Root text (translated from Sanskrit) and commentary:
Nāgārjuna, and Jan Westerhoff. 2010. The Dispeller of Disputes: Nāgārjuna’s Vigrahavyāvartanī. Oxford University Press. JABL
(5) Crushing the Categories
Vaidalyaprakaraṇa
zhib mo rnam par ’thag pa
ཞིབ་མོ་རྣམ་པར་འཐག་པ་
Tibetan
- Nāgārjuna and Jan Westerhoff. 2018. Crushing the Categories (Vaidalyaprakaraṇa). American Institute of Buddhist Studies ; Wisdom Publications. JABL
(6) Precious Garland
Ratnāvalī or Ratnamāla
rgyal po la gtam bya ba rin po che’i phreng ba
རྒྱལ་པོ་ལ་གཏམ་བྱ་བ་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་ཕྲེང་བ་
Tibetan
- Nāgārjuna and Jeffrey Hopkins. 1998. “Precious Garland.” In Nagarjuna’s Precious Garland: Buddhist Advice for Living and Liberation, 94-164. Snow Lion Publications. (tir50.ch) JABL
- Nāgārjuna, John Dunne and Sara McClintock, trans. 1997. The Precious Garland: An Epistle to a King. Wisdom Publications. JABL
Texts
Collection of Praises
Catuḥstava
bstod tshogs
བསྟོད་ཚོགས་
- Lindtner, Chr. 1987. Nagarjuniana: Studies in the Writings and Philosophy of Nāgārjuna. Motilal Banarsidass. JABL
- Nāgārjuna and Chr. Lindtner. 1986. Master of Wisdom: Writings of the Buddhist Master Nāgārjuna. Dharma Publishing. JABL
- Tola, Fernando, and Carmen Dragonetti. 1985. “Nāgārjuna’s Catustava.” Journal of Indian Philosophy 13, no. 1: 1–54. JSTOR
- Nāgārjuna and Thupten Jinpa. 2007. “Hymn to [the Buddha] the World Transcendent.” tibetanclassics.org
Nirupamyastava
- Tola, Fernando, and Carmen Dragonetti. 1985. “Nāgārjuna’s Catustava.” Journal of Indian Philosophy 13, no. 1: 1–54. JSTOR
Paramarthastava
- Tola, Fernando, and Carmen Dragonetti. 1985. “Nāgārjuna’s Catustava.” Journal of Indian Philosophy 13, no. 1: 1–54. JSTOR
Other Texts (Part of Collection of Advice)
- Nāgārjuna and Alexander Berzin (trans.) “Letter to a Friend.” Study Buddhism by Berzin Archives. English Tibetan
- Nāgārjuna, Red-mdaʼ-ba Gzhon-nu-blo-gros, Lobsang Tharchin, and Artemus B Engle (eds.) 1979. Nāgārjuna’s Letter : Nāgārjuna’s “Letter to a Friend” with a Commentary by Venerable Rendawa Zhön-Nu Lo-Drö. Library of Tibetan Works & Archives. JABL
- Lindtner, Christian (trans.) Bodhicittavivarana Exposition of Bodhicitta attributed to Nagarjuna (a critique of Vijnanavada). mit.edu
- Lindtner, Chr. 1987. Nagarjuniana: Studies in the Writings and Philosophy of Nāgārjuna. Motilal Banarsidass. JABL
- Nāgārjuna and Chr. Lindtner. 1986. Master of Wisdom: Writings of the Buddhist Master Nāgārjuna. Dharma Publishing. JABL
- Thupten Jinpa (trans.) “Bodhicitta Vivarana: A Commentary on the Awakening Mind.” sangye.it
