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\u201cI find it fascinating, what the Tibetans did with Buddhism. I think it is utterly remarkable, and also admirable. It\u2019s not purely historical. Although they were the world\u2019s first Indologists, as I once wrote, a slight exaggeration in the least. They completely absorbed Indian texts. For instance, there is Tsongkhapa, who never went to India, others did, of course, but he never went, yet he has a view for understanding the problems of the Madhyamaka, but from his time. In other words, a much more advanced form of Madhyamaka that was actually attested, explicitly in India. It\u2019s potentially, I think, in N\u0101g\u0101rjuna, and even in Chandrak\u012brti, but above all in N\u0101g\u0101rjuna. I feel, in a way, he was very faithful to N\u0101g\u0101rjuna\u2026.\u201d -David Seyfort Ruegg, from Oral History of Tibetan Studies. 2021. \u201cAn Interview with David Seyfort Ruegg.\u201d December 2. (oralhistory.iats.info<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>

Madhyamaka Contemporary Academic Scholarship<\/h2>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

Papers by Topic <\/h3>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

Buddhism and Truth <\/strong><\/p>\n

Cabez\u00f3n, Jos\u00e9 Ignacio. 1981. \u201cThe Concepts of Truth and Meaning in the Buddhist Scriptures.\u201d Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies<\/em>, 4 (1): 7-23. JIABS<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

Collective Volumes on Contemporary Scholarship on Madhyamaka  <\/strong><\/p>\n

Cowherds (Authors). 2011. Moonshadows: Conventional Truth in Buddhist Philosophy<\/em>. Oxford University Press. JABL<\/a><\/p>\n

Dreyfus, Georges B. J., and Sara L. McClintock. 2014. The Svatantrika-Prasangika Distinction: What Difference Does a Difference Make?<\/em> Wisdom. JABL<\/a><\/p>\n

Ruegg David Seyfort. 2010. The Buddhist Philosophy of the Middle: Essays on Indian and Tibetan Madhyamaka<\/em>. Wisdom. JABL<\/a><\/p>\n

Yakherds. 2021. Knowing Illusion: Bringing a Tibetan Debate into Contemporary Discourse<\/em>. Oxford University Press. JABL<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

Madhyamaka and Yogacara<\/strong><\/p>\n

Garfield, Jay L, and Jan Westerhoff. 2015. Madhyamaka and YogYoga\u0304ca\u0304ra: Allies or Rivals?<\/em> Oxford University Press. archive.org<\/a><\/p>\n

Nagao, Gadjin, and Leslie S Kawamura. 1991. Ma\u0304dhyamika and Yoga\u0304ca\u0304ra: A Study of Maha\u0304ya\u0304na Philosophies: Collected Papers of G.M. Nagao<\/em>. State Univ. of New York Press. JABL<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

Madhyamaka in Gelug   <\/strong><\/p>\n

Hopkins, Jeffery. 1989. \u201cA Tibetan Delineation of Different Views of Emptiness in the Indian Middle Way School.\u201d The Tibet Journal<\/em>, 14 (1): 10\u201343. JSTOR<\/a><\/p>\n

Lopez, Donald S. 1989. \u201cOn the Relationships of Emptiness and Dependent Arising: Some dGe-lugs-pa Views.\u201d The Tibet Journal<\/em>, 14 (1): 44\u201369. JSTOR<\/a><\/p>\n

Williams, Paul. 1989. \u201cIntroduction – Some Random Reflections on the Study of Tibetan Madhyamaka.\u201d The Tibet Journal<\/em>, 14 (1): 1\u20139. JSTOR<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

Prasangika Madhyamaka <\/strong><\/p>\n

Ames, William L. 1982. \u201cThe Notion of \u2018Svabh\u0101va\u2019 in the Thought of Candrak\u012brti.\u201d Journal of Indian Philosophy, 10 (2): 161\u201377. JSTOR<\/a><\/p>\n

Ames, William L. 1986. \u201cBuddhap\u0101lita\u2019s Exposition of the Madhyamaka.\u201d Journal of Indian Philosophy<\/em>, 14 (4): 313\u201348. JSTOR<\/a>  <\/p>\n

Garfield, Jay L. 1994. \u201cDependent Arising and the Emptiness of Emptiness: Why Did Na\u0304ga\u0304rjuna  Start with Causation?\u201d Philosophy East and West,<\/em> 44 (2): 219. JSTOR<\/a><\/p>\n

Lopez, Donald S. 1988. \u201cDo \u2018\u015ar\u0101vakas\u2019 Understand Emptiness?\u201d Journal of Indian Philosophy<\/em>, 16 (1): 65\u2013105. (JSTOR<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

Svatantrika Madhyamaka <\/strong><\/p>\n

Tillemans, Tom. 2004. \u201cWhat are Madhyamikas Refuting? Santaraksita, Kamalasila et alii on Superimpositions (samaropa).\u201d In Three Mountains and Seven Rivers: Prof. Musashi Tachikawa’s Felicitation Volume<\/em>, edited by Shoun Hino, Toshihiro Wada (ed. T. Wada). academia.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

Tsong-kha-pa and Madhyamaka <\/strong><\/p>\n

Hopkins, Jeffrey. 1992. \u201cA Tibetan Contribution on the Question of Mind-only in the Early Yogic Practice School.\u201d Journal of Indian Philosophy<\/em>, 20, no. 3: 275\u2013343. JSTOR<\/a><\/p>\n

Thupten Jinpa. 1998. \u201cDelineating Reason\u2019s Scope for Negation Tsongkhapa\u2019s Contribution to Madhyamaka\u2019s Dialectical Method.\u201d Journal of Indian Philosophy<\/em>, 26, no. 4: 275\u2013308. JSTOR<\/a><\/p>\n

Thupten Jinpa. 1999. \u201cTsongkhapa\u2019s Qualms about Early Tibetan Interpretations of Madhyamaka Philosophy.\u201d The Tibet Journal<\/em>, 24, no. 2: 3\u201328. (JSTOR<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

Noted Scholars in Madhyamaka Philosophy  <\/h3>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

Bstan-\u02bcdzin-rgya-mtsho, Dalai Lama XIV<\/strong><\/p>\n