Nagarjuna: Dedicatory Verse

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Dedicatory Verse

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by Nagarjuna
(150? - 250?) Timeline

English version by
Jay L. Garfield

Original Language
Sanskrit

I prostrate to the Perfect Buddha,
The best of teachers, who taught that
Whatever is depedently arisen is
Unceasing, unborn,
Unannihilated, not permanent,
Not coming, not going,
Without distinction, without identity,
And free from conceptual construction.

-- from The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way: Nagarjuna's Mulamadhyamakakarika, by Nagarjuna / Translated by Jay L. Garfield

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Themes

Freedom

Recommended Books

	The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way: Nagarjuna's Mulamadhyamakakarika, by Nagarjuna / Translated by Jay L. Garfield
	Nagarjuna in Context: Mahayana Buddhism in Early Indian Culture, by Joseph Walser
	Nagarjuna's Letter to a Friend, by Nagarjuna / Translated by Padmakara Translation Group
	Nagarjuna's Philosophy: As Presented in the Maha-Prajnaparamita-Sastra, by K. Venkata Ramanan
	Nagarjuna's Seventy Stanzas: A Buddhist Psychology of Emptiness, by Nagarjuna / Translated by David Ross Komito

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