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Nagarjuna :: filosof

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Nāgārjuna var en indisk mahayanabuddhistisk filosof som anses ha grundat den filosofiska skolan madhyamaka. Han tros ha levt någon gång omkring 100-talet e.Kr i södra Indien, men i övrigt kan mycket lite sägas säkert om Nagarjunas liv.

Hans namn betyder bokstavligen "nagaträd", där naga är en ormliknande mytologisk varelse. En berättelse om Nagarjuna säger att han föddes under ett träd och blev uppfostrad av en nagakung, därefter blev han son till en kung i södra Indien.

Nagarjuna är en av de tidigaste helgonliknande figurerna i mahayanska hagiografier, och hans inflytande har varit oerhört stort inom hela mahayanabuddhismen. Nagarjuna har starkt influerat tänkare såsom Dogen, Tsongkhapa och Shinran. Enligt Joseph Walser är Nagarjunas betydelse för mahayanabuddhismen jämförbart med Augustinus betydelse för kristendomen. Han grundade den filosofiska inriktningen madhyamaka inom mahayanabuddhismen. I Tibet kallas han ofta för "den andre Buddha".

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Nagarjuna

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Nāgārjuna (c. 150 – c. 250 CE) was an Indian Mahāyāna Buddhist thinker, scholar-saint and philosopher. He is widely considered one of the most important Buddhist philosophers. Jan Westerhoff considers him to be "one of the greatest thinkers in the history of Asian philosophy."

Nāgārjuna is widely considered to be the founder of the Madhyamaka (centrism, middle-way) school of Buddhist philosophy and a defender of the Mahāyāna movement. His Mūlamadhyamakakārikā (Root Verses on Madhyamaka, or MMK) is the most important text on the madhyamaka philosophy of emptiness. The MMK inspired a large number of commentaries in Sanskrit, Chinese, Tibetan, Korean and Japanese and continues to be studied today.

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