Nāgārjuna
Compendium of Doctrinal Terms
Traditional attribution
Compendium of Doctrinal Terms
धर्मसंग्रह (Dharmasaṃgraha)
A list of numerical categories of Buddhist vocabulary (the four noble truths, the five aggregates, the six perfections…), preserved in a Sanskrit manuscript from Japan and edited at Oxford in 1885 as a specimen of Buddhist Sanskrit transmitted in East Asia.
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Authorship note
Ascribed to Nāgārjuna in its Japanese transmission; it is a much later glossary and scholars regard it as spurious.
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Nāgārjuna
The Dharma-Saṃgraha: An Ancient Collection of Buddhist Technical Terms
The Conscious LibraryThe Dharma-Saṃgraha: An Ancient Collection of Buddhist Technical Terms
Clarendon Press (Anecdota Oxoniensia), 1885
Translation: Kenjiu Kasawara, F. Max Müller y H. Wenzel (edición)
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- Treatise on Transition between Existences
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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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