Written work
Seventy Verses on Emptiness
शून्यतासप्तति (Śūnyatāsaptati); tib. Stong pa nyid bdun cu pa
Some seventy verses, with a commentary ascribed to the author, preserved only in Tibetan. They take up the arguments of the Fundamental Verses on arising and ceasing, time, karma and nirvāṇa in a more concise form, and maintain that the teaching of emptiness does not destroy worldly convention.
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Authorship note
Authentic according to Lindtner (1982) and Ruegg (1981); the SEP counts it among the works whose ascription is "largely uncontested".
Editions and translations
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English
Nāgārjuna's «Seventy Stanzas»: A Buddhist Psychology of Emptiness
Snow Lion, 1987
Translation: David Ross Komito
ISBN 9780937938393
Master of Wisdom: Writings of the Buddhist Master Nāgārjuna
Dharma Publishing, 1986
Translation: Christian Lindtner
ISBN 9780898001396
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Other works by Nāgārjuna
- Fundamental Verses on the Middle Way · 190
- The Dispeller of Disputes (Vigrahavyāvartanī)
- Sixty Verses on Reasoning
- Crushing the Categories (Vaidalyaprakaraṇa)
- Proof of Convention (lost)
- Precious Garland (Ratnāvalī)
- Letter to a Friend (Suhṛllekha)
- The Four Hymns (Catuḥstava)
- Verses on the Heart of Dependent Origination
- Compendium of Sūtras
- Treatise on the Requisites of Awakening
- Commentary on the Awakening Mind
- Treatise on the Great Perfection of Wisdom
- Commentary on the Ten Stages
- Twelve Gate Treatise
- Akutobhayā ("Fearless" commentary on the Verses)
- Twenty Verses on the Great Vehicle
- Treatise of One Verse
- Heart of Means Treatise
- Hymn to the Dharmadhātu
- Treatise on Transition between Existences
- The Staff of Wisdom (maxims)
- Compendium of Doctrinal Terms
- The Five Stages (Pañcakrama)
- Rasaratnākara (alchemical treatise)
- Yogaśataka (a hundred medical formulas)
Sources
- Komito, David Ross. Nāgārjuna's «Seventy Stanzas»: A Buddhist Psychology of Emptiness. Ithaca: Snow Lion, 1987. ISBN 9780937938393.
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