Written work
Crushing the Categories (Vaidalyaprakaraṇa)
वैदल्यप्रकरण (Vaidalyaprakaraṇa); tib. Zhib mo rnam par 'thag pa
A treatise in aphorisms with commentary, preserved only in Tibetan, which examines and dismantles one by one the sixteen categories of the Nyāya school of logic —means of knowledge, objects, doubt, example, thesis, debate— to show that none exists with intrinsic nature. It is an early document of the debate between Buddhists and brahmanical logicians.
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Authorship note
Ascription accepted by Lindtner, Ruegg and the SEP; some specialists doubted it because of its form of sūtras with commentary.
Editions and translations
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English
Nāgārjuna
Crushing the Categories (Vaidalyaprakaraṇa)
The Conscious LibraryCrushing the Categories (Vaidalyaprakaraṇa)
Wisdom Publications, 2018
Translation: Jan Westerhoff
ISBN 9781949163001
Nāgārjuna's Refutation of Logic (Nyāya): Vaidalyaprakaraṇa
Motilal Banarsidass, 1995
Translation: Fernando Tola y Carmen Dragonetti
ISBN 9788120809208
Con edición del texto tibetano
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Sources
- Tola, Fernando, y Carmen Dragonetti (eds. y trads.). Nāgārjuna's Refutation of Logic (Nyāya): Vaidalyaprakaraṇa. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1995. ISBN 9788120809208.
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