A Study of Philosophical significance of the Doctrine of Emptiness of Nagarjuna’s MÅ«lamadhyamakakÄ rikÄ

Pulenthiran Nesan
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Pulenthiran Nesan: M.Phil Scholar, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka.

International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science, 2023, vol. 7, issue 5, 135-142

Abstract: The goal of this study is to expound and present Doctrine of Emptiness in MÅ«lamadhyamakakÄ rikÄ of Nagarjuna in as clear and concise a manner as possible. This treatise is the premier work both of Nagarjuna and of the Madhyamaka School of Buddhism as a whole. It includes all of the main themes of the school, serves as a model for the school’s method of argumentation, and it is the focus of the subsequent history of the school. The research problem is that Nagarjuna’s Emptiness is clearly not mean in the MÅ«lamadhyamakakÄ rikÄ . The concept had fundamental implications for Indian philosophical models of causation, substance ontology, epistemology, conceptualizations of language, ethics and theories of world-liberating salvation, and proved seminal even for Buddhist philosophies in India, Tibet, China and Japan very different from Nagarjuna’s own. This study is based on the information culled out from the relevant works of Nagarjuna and Madhyamaka school of Buddhism which are cited in the footnote as well as in the bibliography. Mainly three methods are employed in preparing this study viz., analytical, comparative and critical method. The analytical method is employed in that an attempt to analyzing the concept of emptiness made in this study and these concepts are presented in a systematic manner. The method is also comparative in that incidental comparison of the sunyata concept of Madhyamika School with the other schools is made in order to have a systematic view of the problem. The method is also critical in that the study tries to show merit as well as demerits, if any, in the Buddhistic concepts cited above. Nagarjuna’s main philosophical concept is emptiness. This survey discussed about the Middle Way, and the refutation of the erroneous views as the illumination of right view and the philosophical positions of Nagarjuna.

Date: 2023
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