Mulamadhyamakakarika of Nagarjuna: The Philosophy of the Middle Way by Nagarjuna (PDF)

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This is a completely new translation of Nagarjuna`s major work the Mulamadhyamakakarika, accompanied by a detailed annotation of each of the verses. The annotation identifies the metaphysical theories of the scholastics criticized by Nagarjuna, and traces the source material and the arguments utilized in his refutation back to the early discourses of the Buddha. The book shows that Nagarjuna`s ideas are neither original nor are they an advancement from the early Buddhist period. Nagarjuna is not a Mahayanist.

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Editorial Reviews: About the Author David Kalupahana is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hawaii. …….most significant is the manner in which the author proceeded to examine the subtle and complex metaphysical issues that blinded the sarvastivadins and the Sautrantikas in a background in which speculative philosophy had reached a high watermark, both among the Buddhists and the traditional Indian philosophers. ….probed into almost every aspect of their speculations, whether relating to epistemology, ontology, moral philosophy, or philosophy of language. He linked disjointed concepts and dissolved the hardened and the solidified.

Reviews from Amazon users which were colected at the time this book was published on the website:

⭐Not as accessible as Siderits and Katsura translation, which I highly recommend for general and scholarly studies.

⭐just a warning that this edition published by Motilal Banarsidass Publishers (Language: EnglishISBN-10: 812080774X) is badly printed. Font is very small, page has little margin, and some pages have uneven ink. you may want to check the edition by State Univ of New York Pr instead (ISBN-10: 0887061494)

⭐This is the ONLY English version of Nagarjuna’s karika worth having. I have spent over two years just studying this work with Prof. Kalupahana’s commentary. If you want to know what was the Enlightened One’s teaching unadulterated by centuries of dispositions, this will lay that knowledge in your hands. A truly remarkable work.

⭐Check the pages if one can. In considering purchasing this reprint I decided to do a collation of the PDF copy I found on line. And found it missing pp 282 and 283. Verso – recto missing pages means either the scanner missed the pages or Motilal missed the pages in their reprint. In both cases the proofreader, if there was one, is at fault. So for now thumbs down on this edition I’ll be looking for the original SUNY ed.

⭐Even with the fact that the book contains an awful amount of typographical errors in both the Sanskrit and the English this is pretty much the only full translation available. Kalupahana knows his subject and although his translations are not always easy to follow he does try to keep to the meaning of the original text rather than imposing external ideas onto it. His choice of wording English could be better and it is certainly not as good a translation as the French one. He relates the text to the major schools of Buddhist thought and shows how Nagarjuna was exposing the metaphysical and substantialist philosophies that had grown up out of a misunderstanding of the core of the Buddha’s teaching.Best read in conjunction with Guy Bugault’s later and excellent French translation ‘Stances De Milieu Par Excellence’and also his ‘L’Inde Pense-t-Elle?’for extra background on the mechanics of Nagarjuna’s dialectic method (both available on www.amazon.fr). With these three books you can see how two different scholars have approached the work and each one pulls in different supporting text from Candrakirti, Nagarjuna’s most authoritative commentator.If you are a serious scholar you’ll also need to get hold of a good copy of the Vallee Poussin and De Jong Sanskrit texts because Bugault does not include the Sanskrit text at all and Kalupahana’s has a number of mistakes and includes only, as is to be expected, the text of the Karika, not the full Prasannapada of Candrakirti.

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