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HPI 47 - Jan Westerhoff on Nagarjuna

History of Philosophy: India, Africana, China

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Nagar Juna's Commentary on the Pursuit of Wisdom

The Kārākas are not a commentary so they don't refer to an earlier root text as explicit commentaries do. Nagar Juna is supplying the arguments for the claims, particular claims but emptiness that the planya paramita sutras make. So you actually could we even think of him as making more explicit what we might think of as the underlying philosophy of the earlier sutras? Yes in so far as he spells out or brings out the arguments that you would need in order to support these claims.

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