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Nagarjuna's Madhyamaka: A Philosophical Introduction Jan Westerhoff
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

He is said, for V: Does seeing Nagarjuna as a philosopher actually distort his message? This essay will argue against the second century CE Buddhist philosopher Nagarjuna's central theory that all phenomena are empty of svabhava, or independent existence. Hence the interest in the abortion controversy, that grew out of some teaching that I was doing and the tentth anniversary of Roe v Wade. Garfield (Translator) http://www.amazon.com/Fundamental-Wisdom-Middle-Way-Mulamadhyamakakarika/dp/0195093364. But I was also aware that Nagarjuna has assumed a mythic identity. Nagarjuna's philosophy marks an epoch-making period not only in the history of Indian philosophy but in the history of philosophy as a whole, because it questions certain philosophical assumptions so easily resorted to in our attempt to “A specific reading of Nāgārjuna's thought, called Prāsaṅgika-Madhyamaka, became the official philosophical position of Tibetan Buddhism which regards it as the pinnacle of philosophical sophistication up to the present day.”. New from Oxford University Press: Nagarjuna's Madhyamaka: A Philosophical Introduction by Jan Westerhoff. About the book, from the publisher: The Indian philosopher Acarya Nagarjuna (c. SB: Books on Madhyamaka philosophy always say that Nagarjuna's main point was to refute the existence of svabhava (self-existence). Stephen Batchelor: I was first introduced to Nagarjuna as the revered founder of Madhyamika philosophy and a seminal figure in the foundation of the Mahayana.