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Founder of Madhyamaka Buddhism
About Nāgārjuna
In the quiet halls of Nālandā’s early monastic debates, he didn’t refute opponents with scripture—but with their own premises. Using the prasaṅga method, he showed how every fixed position—'things exist', 'things don’t exist', 'both', 'neither'—collapses under its own logic when traced through dependent origination. His Mūlamadhyamakakārikā wasn’t a doctrine to adopt but a scalpel: twelve chapters dismantling causality, motion, time, and self—not to install nihilism, but to expose the clinging behind even the word 'emptiness'. He refused to posit any ultimate thesis, not even 'all is empty', insisting that liberation arises only when the mind stops reifying conclusions as anchors. His silence after argument wasn’t evasion—it was the first breath of freedom from conceptual proliferation. This isn’t philosophy as system-building; it’s philosophy as unbinding.
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- “How did your analysis of chariot-parts in Chapter 1 dissolve the illusion of inherent existence?”
- “Why did you reject both 'existence' and 'non-existence' yet still affirm conventional truth?”
- “What danger did you see in treating 'śūnyatā' itself as a view to hold?”
- “How would you respond to a Brahmin who claims karma requires a permanent agent?”