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English | ASIN: B097QBC9HD | 2021 | 12 hours and 4 minutes |kbps | 332 MB The Buddhist saint Ngrjuna, who lived in South India in approximately the second century CE, is undoubtedly the most important, influential, and widely studied Mahyna Buddhist philosopher. His greatest philosophical work, the Mlamadhyamikakrik - read and studied by philosophers in all major Buddhist schools of Tibet, China, Japan, and Korea - is one of the most influential works in the history of Indian philosophy. Now, in The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way, Jay L. Garfield provides a clear translation of Ngrjuna's seminal work, offering those with little or no prior knowledge of Buddhist philosophy a view into the profound logic of the Mlamadhyamikakrik. Garfield presents a superb translation of the Tibetan text of Mlamadhyamikakrik in its entirety and a commentary reflecting the Tibetan tradition through which Ngrjuna's philosophical influence has largely been transmitted. Illuminating the systematic character of Ngrjuna's reasoning, Garfield shows how Ngrjuna develops his doctrine that all phenomena are empty of inherent existence, that is, than nothing exists substantially or independently. He offers a verse-by-verse commentary that explains Ngrjuna's positions and arguments in the language of Western metaphysics and epistemology and connects Ngrjuna's concerns to those of Western philosophers.