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Beyond the Self: Teachings on the Middle Way by Thich Nhat Hanh - One of the Buddha's most central ideas is the importance of transcending “either/or” thinking to avoid the trap of extremist views. In Beyond the Self Thich Nhat Hanh suggests that we can find tranquility by embracing all aspects of life, instead of focusing on what we like and dislike. The book contains Nhat Hanh's original translation of the Sutra on the Middle Way, as well as his commentary on how we can use this teaching to better understand how to navigate our difficulties and find peace of mind. By changing how we see the world, Beyond the Self helps us transform ourselves.

Buddhism - The Middle Path - buddhanet.net
http://www.buddhanet.net/cbp2_f4.htm

Buddhist Philosophy of the Middle: Essays on the Indian and Tibetan Madyamaka by David Ruegg - Since the 1950s, David Seyfort Ruegg, an independent scholar affiliated with school of Oriental and African studies at the University of London, has been publishing precise, informed, and seminal works on the history and philosophy of Indian and Tibetan Buddhism. Central to this highly regarded oeuvre has been his works on Madhyamaka philosophy, the core doctrine of Mahayana Buddhism that has animated thinkers for two millennia. Whether he's engaging in focused philological analysis, translating texts, or weighing in on larger trends in the field of Buddhist studies, Ruegg shows here why other scholars so often turn to him for insights and perspective. Drawing on decades of exhaustive and authoritative research and scholarship, The Philosophy of the Middle Way is the product of a lifetime of work and dedication to the study and presentation of Buddhist philosophy. This volume of the Studies in Indian and Tibetan Buddhism series is a gift to all who are interested in utilizing the wisdom of a masterful scholar and a profound tradition of thought.

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 Central Philosophy, Basic Verses: Nagarjuna by Erick Hoogcarspel - In this breakthrough translation, Nagarjuna, the early Buddhist philosopher, attempts to show that reality cannot be reduced to conceptual structures because thought and conceptualization belong to the field of mental presentation and are therefore fantasy. Reality, on the contrary, is what is experienced, and for that very reason, cannot be thought. A work of enormous impact on the history of Buddhist thought in East Asia, Nagarjuna demonstrates the absurdity of concepts such as substance, causality, and the idea of movement. Much like the Western philosopher Kant, he shows the limits of human understanding, and in doing so, creates room for religious experience.

 

 Central Philosophy of Buddhism: A Study of Madhyamika System by Tirupattur Ramaseshayyer Venkatachala Murti
Book Description: There is a class of scholars who are of the opinion that Buddhism in general, and Madhyamaka of Nagarjuna in particular, is not only deconstructionistic in orientation, but also nihilistic in content. How far this assertion is tenable or valid depends from what perspective we look at the Middle Way philosophy of Nagarjuna. While analyzing the general orientation of Buddhist thought, Prof. Murti shows that Nagarjuna's philosophy, although deconstructionistic in its approach, is not at all nihilistic in orientation. The dialectical methods of the reduction ad absurdum, which Murti employs as a basic tool of critique, is meant to show that reason cannot reach or comprehend that which is a priori of the Beyond, or what we call Transcendent.

Chinese Madhymaka Theory of the Truth: The Case of Chi-tsang by Ming-Wood Liu
http://www.thezensite.com/ZenEssays/Nagarjuna/ChineseMadhyamaka.htm

 

 

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Dharmaphala's Yogacara Critique of Bhavaviveka's Madhyamika Explanation of Emptiness: The Tenth Chapter f Ta-ch'Eng kuang Pai-Lun Shih Commenting on Aryadeva's by Dharmapala and John Keenan - In his Sataka commentary, the Yogacara philosopher Dharmapala levels the earliest explicit critique of Madhyuamika notions of emptiness, arguing that his Yogacara interpretation is preferable because it avoids and affirms the other-dependent validity of language. He specifically takes aim at the Madhyamika philosopher Bhavaiveka, refuting his previous criticisms of the Yogacara thinkers.

 

 Dependent-Arising and Emptiness: A Tibetan Buddhist Interpretation of Madhyamika Philosophy by Elizabeth Napper B. Alan Wallace, author of Tibetan Buddhism from the Ground Up: "This work is academically rigorous and comprehensive, with meticulous attention to the subtleties of the Madhyamika view. Recommended wholeheartedly."

 

Dispeller of Disputes: Nagarjuna's Vigrahavyavartanti by Jan Westerhoff - Nagarjuna's Vigrahavyavartani is an essential work of Madhyamaka Buddhist philosophical literature. Written in an accessible question-and-answer style, it contains Nagarjuna's replies to criticisms of his philosophy of the "Middle Way." The Vigrahavyavartani has been widely cited both in canonical literature and in recent scholarship; it has remained a central text in India, Tibet, China, and Japan, and has attracted the interest of greater and greater numbers of Western readers.
In The Dispeller of Disputes, Jan Westerhoff offers a clear new translation of the Vigrahavyavartani, taking current philological research and all available editions into account, and adding his own insightful philosophical commentary on the text. Crucial manuscript material has been discovered since the earlier translations were written, and Westerhoff draws on this material to produce a study reflecting the most up-to-date research on this text. In his nuanced and incisive commentary, he explains Nagarjuna's arguments, grounds them in historical and textual scholarship, and explicitly connects them to contemporary philosophical concerns.

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Early Madhyamika in India and China by Richard H Robinson - book

Emptiness and Becoming: Integrating Madhyamika Buddhism and Process Philosophy by Kakol - book - This attempts to creative a integration between these two philosophies and introduce a new one called Process Buddhism.

 Emptiness Appraised: A Critical Study of Nagarjuna's Philosophy by David F Burton - Book Description: Emptiness means that all entities are empty of, or lack, inherent existence - entities have a merely conceptual, constructed existence. Though Nagarjuna advocates the Middle Way, his philosophy of emptiness nevertheless entails nihilism, and his critiques of the Nyaya theory of knowledge are shown to be unconvincing.

 

 Emptiness of Emptiness: an Introduction to Early Madhyamika by C W Huntington

 

 

Empty Logic: Madhyamika Buddhism from Chinese Sources by Hsueh-Li Cheng - There has been a growing interest in Buddhist thought among Western scholars, especially in the philosophical teachings of the Madhyamika. In this book Prof. Cheng deals with its principle doctrines, its philosophy and its influence on Zen Buddhism. Madhyamika Buddhism was founded by Nagarjuna in India in the second century A.d. It is considered to be "the most important outcome of Buddha's teaching" and "philosophical Buddhism par excellence".

 

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Foundational Standpoint of Madhyamika Philosophy by Gadjin Nagao

 

 

 Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way: Nagarjuna's Mulamadhyamakakarika by Nagarjuna
Throughout this profoundly logical text, Nagarjuna meets contrasting dialectical arguments, thereby proving that all phenomena are empty of inherent existence and nothing originates independently of anything else. He forges a middle path between conventional and ultimate truths. In his comments, Garfield compares this complex doctrine with Western philosophical concepts of emptiness and essence, demonstrating its empirical stature.

 

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Indo-Tibetan Madhyamika Studies - Card catalog description - Chiefly papers presented at the third Monastic Dialogue Seminar on "Madhyamika School of Buddhism" held at Drepung Monastic University, in 1989.

 

 Introduction to the Middle Way: Chandrakirti's Madhyamakavatara with Commentary by Jamgön Mipham - Description: Chandrakirti is one of several Indian thinkers whose treatises were brought to Tibet and whose realized teachings about the nature of the mind are the foundation of Tibetan Buddhist thought. Hidden in his verses are the guideposts to enlightenment, composed in this way to help those students who have received instruction to commit it to memory. Mipham's commentary, presented in thorough outline form, offers a point-by-point explanation of Chandrakirti's meaning.

Introduction - Madhyamika - Taken from a teaching given at Karma Triyana Dharmachakra on the weekend of October 24, 1986. Translated by Lama Yeshe Gyamtso and edited by Krista Schwimmer.
http://www.purifymind.com/Tibetan.html

 Introduction to the Philosophy of Nagarjuna by Musahi Tachikawa - Description: This book is a study of the Mulamadhya-makakarika (Middle Stanzas), the chief work of Nagarjuna. The Middle Stanzas is a treatise that integrates the concepts of dependent co-arising (Pratityasamutpada) and emptiness (Sunyata), fundamental to the thought of Mahayana Buddhism, but the manner in which Nagarjuna develops his arguments is unusual and the middle Stanzas has acquired a reputation as a difficult work.

Is Madhyamaka Buddhism Really the Middle Way? by David Burton
http://www.westernbuddhistreview.com/vol3/madhyamaka.html

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Japanese Buddhism and the Meiji Restoration by Gudo Wafu Nishijima
http://www.thezensite.com/ZenEssays/DogenStudies/buddhism_and_meiji.pdf

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Key to Madhyamika by Bstan-dzin-rgya-mtsho - unknown binding

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Language Against its own Mystifications: Deconstruction in Nagarjuna and Dogen by David R Loy
http://www.thezensite.com/ZenEssays/DogenStudies/LanguageAgainst.htm

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Madhyamika and Shentong - luminousemptiness.blogspot.com
http://luminousemptiness.blogspot.com/2004/08/madhyamika-and-shentong-4.html

 Madhyamika and Yogacara: A Study of Mahayana Philosophies: Collected papers of G M Nagao by Gadjin M Nagao
About the Author -- Gadjin M. Nagao is Professor Emeritus of Buddhist Studies at Kyoto University, Japan. He is the author of The Foundational Standpoint of Madhyamika Philosophy, also published by SUNY Press. Leslie S. Kawamura is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

Madhyamaka in East Asia - wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C4%81dhyamaka_in_East_Asia

Madhyamika Mind by Harsh Narain - Book Description: The author essays in this work the task of demonstrating with a wealth of documentation that it is difficult to resist the conclusion that Madhyamika philosophy, styled Sunyavada, is Universal, Total, or Absolute Nihilism/Illusionism, indeed so Absolute a Nihilism/Illusionism that it leaves absolutely no room for religion and mysticism.

 Middle Beyond Extremes: Maitrey's Madhyantavibhanga with Commentaries by Khenpo Shenga and Ju Mipham by Translated by the Dharmackra Translation Committee - A classic exposition of the Mind-Only School of Mahayana Buddhism is now made available to a wider public for the first time. Included are two commentaries which flesh out the terse root text and explore the underlying philosophical issues.

 

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Naagaarjuna, The Philosophy of the Middle Way by Kenneth K Inada
http://ccbs.ntu.edu.tw/FULLTEXT/JR-JOCP/inada1.htm

Nagarjuna and Chi-Tsang on the Value of "This World": A Reply to Kuang-ming Wu's Critique of Indian and Chinese Madhyamika Buddhism by Robert Magliola
http://www.thezensite.com/ZenEssays/Nagarjuna/Nagarjuna_and_ChiaTsang.pdf

Nagarjuna and the Doctrine of "Skillful Means"  by John Schroeder - The role of "skillful means" is examined in relation to the important Mahayana philosopher Nagarjuna, and it is argued that the doctrine of "emptiness" is best understood as a critical reflection on the nature of Buddhist praxis.
http://www.thezensite.com/ZenEssays/Nagarjuna/Nagarjuna_and_Skillful_Means.htm

Nagarjuna and the Philosophy of Openness by Nancy McCagney - book - In this innovative study of the philosopher Nagarjuna, Nancy McCagney demonstrates that the concept of space ("akasa") in early Indian Mahayana Buddhism is the root metaphor for Nagarjuna's understanding of "sunyata", or openness. Nagarjuna's use of the term "sunyata" was new, and contrasted with the word's use in Pali Buddhist literature. By using the word to mean "openness," Nagarjuna was able to elucidate, through a deeper analysis of impermanence, a consistent philosophical foundation for the truth and efficacy of Gautama's Middle Way. McCagney's book will be important for those studying Indian philosophy, Buddhism, and the philosophy of religion.

Nagarjuna and the Limits of Thought by Jay L Garfield - a long essay about Nagarjuna's contradictions
http://www.thezensite.com/ZenEssays/Nagarjuna/NagarjunaTheLimitsOfThought.pdf

Nagarjuna: Master of Paradox, Mystic or Perpetrator of Fallacies? by Richard P Hayes
http://www.thezensite.com/ZenEssays/Nagarjuna/Master_of_Paradox.pdf

Nagarjuna's Middle Way by Jonah Winters
http://bahai-library.com/personal/jw/other.pubs/nagarjuna/index.html

 Nagarjuna's Seventy Stanzas: A Buddhist Psychology of Emptiness by David Ross Komito - For almost two thousand years Nagarjuna's teachings have occupied a central position in Mahayana Buddhism.

 

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 Ocean of Reasoning: A Great Commentary on Nagarjuna's Mulamadhyamakakarika by Rje Tsong Khapa - Book Description:
Tsong khapa (14th-15th centuries) is arguably the most important and influential philosopher in Tibetan history. His Ocean of Reasoning is the most extensive and perhaps the deepest extant commentary on Nagarjuna's Mulamadhyamakakarika (Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way)... It discusses alternative readings of the text and prior commentaries and provides a detailed exegesis, constituting a systematic presentation of Madhyamaka Buddhist philosophy.

On the Soteriological Significance of Emptiness by Mark Siderits - When it comes to interpreting the Madhyamaka doctrine of emptiness (s´u¯nyata¯), we presently find ourselves with an embarrassment of riches. As concerns the meaning of this doctrine (as it is found in the works of Na¯ga¯rjuna and his followers), there is a wide array of competing views, with little evidence of an emerging consensus.

Open Door to Emptiness: A discussion of Madhyamika Logic - paperback - The concept of emptiness which was taught by the Buddha and was greatly expounded on by the great master Nagarjuna is not easy to grasp. But Thrangu Rinpoche, who is well known for taking very complex Buddhist subjects and making them accessible to the Buddhist practitioner, gives a detailed set of logical arguments based on ordinary life experiences on this topic. He bases this unique work on Mipham Rinpoche's great treatise, The Gateway to Knowledge.

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 Path to the Middle: Oral Madhyamika Philosophy in tibet: The spoken Scholarship of Kensur Yeshey Tupden by Anne Carolyn Klein

 

Problem of the Historical Nagarjuna Revisited by Ian Mabbett
http://www.thezensite.com/ZenEssays/Nagarjuna/The_problem_of_historical_Nagarjuna.htm

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 Reflexive Nature of Awareness: A Tibetan Madhyamaka Defence by Paul Williams - Book Description: This is the first book length study of its subject, and also includes a reprint of a previous paper by Williams on the reflexive nature of awareness, as well as the relevant Tibetan texts from Mi pham. The book will be of interest to all students of Indian and Tibetan Madhyamaka, as well as associated areas of Buddhist thought such as Yogacara and the philosophy of Dharmakirti.

 

Religious Dimensions of Madhyamika Buddhism by Fredrick J Streng
http://www.shantideva.net/madhyamika.htm

Rise of the Mahayana - buddhanet.net
http://www.buddhanet.net/e-learning/buddhistworld/maha2.htm

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Second Buddha: Nagarjuna - Buddhism's Greatest Philosopher by David Loy
http://www.thezensite.com/ZenEssays/Nagarjuna/SecondBuddha_Nagarjuna_Loy.html

 Studies in the Middle Way: Being Thoughts on Buddhism Applied by Chris Humphreys - Emphasizes the inner life as a constant moving on and the mover as a pilgrim travelling along an ancient Way. This Way to ultimate Reality was called by Gautama the Buddha the Middle Way, the path between the introverted life of contemplation and the extrovert life of action in the world of men.

 

 Sun of Wisdom: Teachings on the Noble Nagarjuna's Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way by Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso
Book Description: The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way was written in the second century and is one of the most important works of Nagarjuna, the pioneering commentator on the Buddha's teachings on the Madhyamika or Middle Way view. The subtle analyses presented in this treatise were closely studied and commented upon by many realized masters from the Indo-Tibetan Buddhist tradition. Using Nagarjuna's root text and the great modern master Ju Mipham's commentary as a framework, Khenpo Tsültrim Gyamtso explains the most important verse from each chapter in the text in a style that illuminates for modern students both the meaning of these profound teachings and how to put them into practice in a way that benefits both oneself and others.

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Time and Emptiness in the Chao-Lun by Michael Berman
http://www.thezensite.com/ZenEssays/Nagarjuna/TimeandEmptiness_in_the_Chao-Lun.htm

Time in Madhyamika buddhism and Modern Physics by Victor Mansfield
http://www.lightlink.com/vic/time.html

 

 Two Truths Debate: Tsongkhapa and Gorampa on the Middle Way by Sonam Thakchoe - The Middle Way is a central idea for all Buddhists, yet its definition varies across Buddhist cultures. In Tibetan Buddhism, the interpretation of what are called the two truths — the truth of conventional appearances and the ultimate truth of emptiness — is especially contentious. This comparative analysis examines the differing approaches toward the Middle Way taken by the two great Buddhist scholars, Tsongkhapa and Gorampa. It demonstrates how philosophical positions have dramatic implications both for how one approaches Buddhist practice and for how one ultimately understands enlightenment itself.

 

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Verses from the Centre by Stephen Batchelor
http://www.stephenbatchelor.org/verses2.htm

View from the Buddhist Middle Way by Ian Clark
http://www.december.com/cmc/mag/1997/apr/clark.html

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Zen Teachings of Nagarjuna by Vladimir K
http://www.thezensite.com/ZenEssays/Nagarjuna/zenteachingsofnagarjuna.pdf

 

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