Nāgārjuna
Proof of Convention (lost)
Written work
Proof of Convention (lost)
व्यवहारसिद्धि (Vyavahārasiddhi)
A lost treatise of which only a few verses quoted by later authors remain. Judging by its title and the fragments, it argued that emptiness does not annul conventional reality but makes it possible: precisely because nothing has intrinsic nature, language, action and its fruits can function.
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Authorship note
Lindtner (1982) counts it among the authentic works on the basis of six verses quoted in Tibetan; in the Tibetan list of the corpus of reasoning it sometimes takes the place of the Ratnāvalī.
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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)
- 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
- 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
- Lindtner, Christian. Nagarjuniana: Studies in the Writings and Philosophy of Nāgārjuna. Copenhague: Akademisk Forlag, 1982 (Indiske Studier 4); reimpr. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1987. ISBN 9788750023852.
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