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A 6 page overview of the arguments of the Indian philosopher Nagarjuna who lived between the first and second century CE, some five hundred years after the death of Buddha. This was a time of dramatic debates regarding Buddhist doctrine and practice and Nagarjuna philosophy would come to be accepted by a major component of Buddhist followers. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Nagarjuna is considered one of Indias most noted philosophers (Lusthaus, 2003). He lived between the first and second century CE, some five hundred years after
the death of Buddha (Lusthaus, 2003). This was a time of dramatic debates regarding Buddhist doctrine and practice, a debate which at the center of which stood the school
of Mahaayaana which is renown for producing the Praj~naa-Paaramitaa literature (Lusthaus, 2003). This literature encapsulated the reanalysis of Buddhist doctrine and practice which came to be associated with Nagarjuna
and would be considered by many in (Tibet, East and Central Asia, and Vietnam where this version of Buddhism would take a firm grip) as second only to Buddha himself
in importance to Buddhist philosophy (Lusthaus, 2003). Nagarjuna argued that there were no absolute and unchanging aspects of reality as they
impacted causality and personal selfhood. Nagarjunas philosophies are distinctive from the Buddhist philosophies of the day as a whole because the latter believed not only that there is no
beginning and no end, no Creation, and no Heaven but also that enlightenment is the realization of the identity of the self with the absolute. Nagarjuna disagreed with this
sense of absolutism. Nagarjuna philosophy can also be distinguished from mainstream Buddhist philosophy in several other key areas. Lusthaus (2003) relates that Nagarjuna challenged not just Buddhists, in
fact, but even non-Buddhists, that while: "he extols the Buddha and the doctrine of pratiitya-samutpaada
(conditioned co-arising), his assault on the underlying assumptions entailed in notions of selfhood and causality deliberately undermined the conventional as well as the more sophisticated ideas held by Buddhists concerning
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