Nāgārjuna
Akutobhayā ("Fearless" commentary on the Verses)
Traditional attribution
Akutobhayā ("Fearless" commentary on the Verses)
Akutobhayā (Mūlamadhyamakavṛtti-akutobhayā); tib. Dbu ma rtsa ba'i 'grel pa ga las 'jigs med
A prose commentary on the Mūlamadhyamakakārikā preserved only in Tibetan, probably the oldest of the Indian commentaries surviving in that language. It explains the verses one by one in a terse manner and shares many passages with Buddhapālita's commentary, which fuels debate about which depends on which.
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Authorship note
Tibetan tradition ascribes it to Nāgārjuna, but specialists regard it as a later commentary, related to Buddhapālita's. Kumārajīva's biography mentions a "Fearless Treatise" of a hundred thousand verses from which the Middle Treatise came forth, an unidentified work.
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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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