id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-6973 Madhyamaka - Wikipedia .html text/html 19077 1779 65 Madhyamaka ("Middle way" or "Centrism"; Sanskrit: मध्यमक; Chinese: 中觀見; pinyin: Zhōngguān Jìan; Tibetan: dbu ma pa) also known as Śūnyavāda (the emptiness doctrine) and Niḥsvabhāvavāda (the no svabhāva doctrine) refers to a tradition of Buddhist philosophy and practice founded by the Indian philosopher Nāgārjuna (c. Nagarjuna's arguments entertain certain abhidharmic standpoints while refuting others."[95] One example can be seen in Nagarjuna's Ratnavali which makes supports the study of a list of 57 moral faults which he takes from an Abhidharma text named the Ksudravastuka.[97] Abhidharmic analysis figures prominently in Madhyamaka treatises, and authoritative commentators like Candrakīrti emphasize that Abhidharmic categories function as a viable (and favored) system of conventional truths they are more refined than ordinary categories, and they are not dependent on either the extreme of eternalism or on the extreme view of the discontinuity of karma, as the non-Buddhist categories of the time did. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-6973.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-6973.txt