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Fundamental Verses on the Middle Way

Mulamadhyamakakarika

Nagarjuna·Sanskrit

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Nagarjuna's masterwork. Twenty-seven chapters demonstrating that all things are empty of inherent existence.

Whatever is dependently co-arisen, that is explained to be emptiness. That, being a dependent designation, is itself the middle way.

If all this were non-empty, there would be neither arising nor ceasing, and it would follow that the Four Noble Truths would not exist.

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