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Nāgārjuna

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Author(s): Ye Shaoyong
Nāgārjuna (Tib. Klu sgrub; Chn. Longshu [龍樹]), defined as the Madhyamaka philosopher with his magnum opus the Mūlamadhyamakakārikā, is generally believed to have flourished in South India early in the 1st millennium of the Common Era. Nāgārjuna is the earliest figure whose name has been handed down as a Mahāyānist (though his Mahāyānist identity is questioned by Warder, 1973; Kalupahana, 1986, 5ff.; for criticisms see e.g. Seyfort Ruegg, 1981, 6; Lindtner, 1982, 21; Saitō, 2012, 11); some scholars conjecture his relationship with …