Candrakīrti's Madhyamakāvatārabhāṣya. Chapters 1 to 5 / Horst Lasic, Xueshue Li, Anne MacDonald.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lasic, Horst, author.

MacDonald, Anne, author.

Li, Xueshue, author.

Language:

Latvian

Subjects (All):

Buddhism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (326 pages)

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2022.

Summary:

This book contains a critical Sanskrit edition of the first fivechapters of the Madhyamakāvatārabhāṣya, a work that presents the steps of the path to full Awakening according to the "GreatVehicle" of Buddhism. The author of the work, the Indian scholar Candrakīrti (circa A.D. 570-650), is one of the most important representatives of the Madhyamaka, the "Middle Way," school--one of the two main schools of the Great Vehicle--which wasfounded by Nāgārjuna in the second or third century.

Notes:

Description based on: online resource; title from PDF information screen (Worldcat, viewed May 14, 2023).