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

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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