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The dialectical method of Nāgārjuna

Translation of the ‘Vigrahavyāvartanī’ from the original Sanskrit with introduction and notes

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Abbreviations and bibliographical references

  • A complete translation of Nāgārjuna's major work, the Madhyamaka-kārikās, along with Candrakīrti's Prasannapadā, is now available: Th. Stcherbatsky, The Conception of Buddhist Nirvā \(\mathop n\limits_. \) a, Leningrad, 1927 (chapters I, XXV).

  • St. Schayer, Ausgewählte Kapitel aus der Prasannapadā, W. Krakowie, 1931 (chapters V, XII–XVI).

  • St. Schayer, ‘Feuer und Brennstoff’, Rocznik Orientalistyczny VII, 1931, pp. 26–52 (chapter X).

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  • E. Lamotte, Le Traité de l'acte de Vasubandhu, Karmasiddhiprakara \(\mathop n\limits_. \) a, Bruges, 1936 (extrait des Mélanges chinois et bouddhiques publiés par L'Institut Belge des Hautes Etudes Chinoises, Vol. IV), pp. 121–144 (chapter XVII).

  • J. W. de Jong, Cinq chapitres de la Prasannapadā, Paris, 1949 (chapters XVIII–XXII).

  • J. May, Candrakīrti: Prasannapadā Madhyamakav \(\underset{\raise0.3em\hbox{$\smash{\scriptscriptstyle\cdot}$}}{r}\) tti, Paris, 1959 (chapters II–IV, VI–IX, XI, XXIII–XXIV, XXVI–XXVII). This work contains also an important bibliography.

  • Besides, R. Gnoli's Nāgārjuna: Madhyamaka Kārikā, in Italian (Torino, 1961), gives a complete translation of Nāgārjuna's Kārikās, and E. Frauwallner's Die Philosophie des Buddhismus (Berlin, 1956), pp. 178ff., 243ff., gives a translation of the chapters I, XV, XVIII, XXIV and XXV of Nāgārjuna's Kārikās, and of part of chapter I of Candrakīrti's Prasannapadā.

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Bhattacharya, K. The dialectical method of Nāgārjuna. J Indian Philos 1, 217–261 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00162413

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