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HPI 47 - Jan Westerhoff on Nagarjuna

History of Philosophy: India, Africana, China

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The Importance of Nagajana Thought in India

Nagajana is one of the most influential Indian thinkers and there are two commentators who disagreed about the right way to understand him. Madhyamaka then becomes the dominant philosophical school within Tibetan Buddhism. Nagajana asks us to reject the common sense view of the world, but also a conventionally object that is left untouched by his analyses. And so if you think everything is empty nothing has for Baba what precisely are you rejecting?

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