Attribuée à Nāgārjuna
«Everything is empty; therefore nothing exists.»
Fausse attribution
Verdict
Elle ne figure pas dans l'œuvre de Nāgārjuna
A nihilist summary circulating under his name which he expressly rejects: for Nāgārjuna emptiness is dependent origination, not non-existence (MMK 24.18), and the Verses fault both "it exists" and "it does not exist" (15.7–15.10). His opponents already ascribed this nihilism to him, and the Vigrahavyāvartanī answers it.
Source: Garfield, Jay L. (trad.). The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way: Nāgārjuna's Mūlamadhyamakakārikā. Nueva York: Oxford University Press, 1995. ISBN 9780195093360.
Ce qu'il a vraiment dit
Paroles vérifiées de Nāgārjuna
«I bow to the perfect Buddha, the best of speakers, who taught dependent origination —without cessation or arising, without annihilation or permanence, without unity or plurality, without coming or going—, the pacification of conceptual proliferation, the auspicious.»
Mūlamadhyamakakārikā, estrofas de dedicatoria; texto sánscrito de la ed. de La Vallée Poussin (1903–1913); traducciones española e inglesa del investigador
«Not from themselves, nor from another, nor from both, nor without cause: nowhere do any arisen things whatsoever exist.»
Mūlamadhyamakakārikā 1.1; texto sánscrito de la ed. de La Vallée Poussin (1903–1913); traducciones española e inglesa del investigador
«In the instruction to Kātyāyana, the Blessed One, who discerns being and non-being, rejected both "it exists" and "it does not exist".»
Mūlamadhyamakakārikā 15.7 (alude al Kaccānagotta Sutta, SN 12.15); texto sánscrito de la ed. de La Vallée Poussin (1903–1913); traducciones española e inglesa del investigador