Nāgārjuna
Twelve Gate Treatise
Traditional attribution
Twelve Gate Treatise
*Dvādaśamukhaśāstra; chin. 十二門論 Shí'èr mén lùn
A short treatise that expounds emptiness through twelve "gates" or arguments —on causes and conditions, existence and non-existence, characteristics, the agent. With the Middle Treatise and Āryadeva's Hundred Treatise it forms the canon of the Chinese Three Treatise school.
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Authorship note
Ascribed to Nāgārjuna by Kumārajīva; many verses coincide with the Mūlamadhyamakakārikā and the Śūnyatāsaptati, but the work exists only in Chinese and its authorship is disputed.
Editions and translations
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Chino clásico · 文言
Nāgārjuna
十二門論
The Conscious Library十二門論
Taishō Shinshū Daizōkyō, 409
Translation: Kumārajīva
Traducción china antigua, T30 n.º 1568; texto en zh.wikisource.org
Other works by Nāgārjuna
- Fundamental Verses on the Middle Way · 190
- The Dispeller of Disputes (Vigrahavyāvartanī)
- Seventy Verses on Emptiness
- 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
- 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
- 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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