Traditional attribution
Twenty Verses on the Great Vehicle
महायानविंशिका (Mahāyānaviṃśikā); chin. 大乘二十頌論
Twenty verses presenting the world as a construction of the mind, comparable to a painting of a demon that frightens its own painter, and liberation as the end of that construction. Its tone, close to Yogācāra idealism, is the main argument against its authenticity.
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Authorship note
Doubtful attribution: its idealist tone has led several specialists to reject it; it survives in Sanskrit, Tibetan and Dānapāla's Chinese translation.
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Chino clásico · 文言
Nāgārjuna
大乘二十頌論
The Conscious Library大乘二十頌論
Taishō Shinshū Daizōkyō, 1000
Translation: Dānapāla (Shihu)
Traducción china antigua, T30 n.º 1576; texto en zh.wikisource.org
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- Seventy Verses on Emptiness
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- 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)
- 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
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Sources
- Ruegg, David Seyfort. The Literature of the Madhyamaka School of Philosophy in India. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1981 (A History of Indian Literature VII, 1).
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