Nāgārjuna
Heart of Means Treatise
Traditional attribution
Heart of Means Treatise
*Upāyahṛdaya; chin. 方便心論 Fāngbiàn xīn lùn
A debate manual listing the rules, the kinds of argument and the dialectical faults, one of the oldest documents of Indian logic; it mentions several philosophical schools, among them yoga, and shows the state of debate before Dignāga.
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Authorship note
Tucci attributed it to Nāgārjuna and Woods (1914) cites it under that name; most scholars regard it as by another author. Chinese translation of 472.
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Chino clásico · 文言
Nāgārjuna
方便心論
The Conscious Library方便心論
Taishō Shinshū Daizōkyō, 472
Translation: Kiṅkara y Tanyao
T32 n.º 1632
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
- Twelve Gate Treatise
- Akutobhayā ("Fearless" commentary on the Verses)
- Twenty Verses on the Great Vehicle
- Treatise of One Verse
- 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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