Nagarjuna

About The Author

Considered the preeminent scholar-practitioner of Mahayana Buddhism,  the Indian philosopher Nagarjuna was renowned for his texts explaining the doctrine of emptienss, or shunyata. He is usually considered a Buddhist monk and scholar who lived in southern India sometime between 100 and 300 CE. He is revered as the founder of the Madhyamaka, or Middle Way school of Buddhist philosophy, which had a deep influence on all Mahayana traditions, and especially on Tibetan Buddhism.

Books by Nagarjuna

The Reason Sixty

With the Reason Sixty Commentary, Second Edition

By Nagarjuna and Chandrakirti
Translated by Joseph J. Loizzo
Presents two key Indian Buddhist philosophical masterpieces that integrate the Buddhist ethos of wisdom and compassion, with their profound relevance to contemporary thought clarified by a renowned scholar of contemplative science.
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Crushing the Categories (Vaidalyaprakarana)
By Nagarjuna
Translated by Jan Westerhoff
A rare glimpse of the sophisticated philosophical exchange between Buddhist and non-Buddhist schools at an early stage.
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