Nāgārjuna
The Staff of Wisdom (maxims)
Traditional attribution
The Staff of Wisdom (maxims)
Prajñādaṇḍa / Prajñāśataka; tib. Shes rab sdong bu
Aphorisms of practical and political wisdom —on friendship, prudence, wealth, fools and sages— from the Indian nīti tradition, transmitted in the Tibetan Tengyur. Their attribution to Nāgārjuna reflects the tendency to place wisdom literature under a great name.
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Authorship note
Collections of moral maxims preserved in Tibetan under Nāgārjuna's name; scholars do not count them among the philosopher's works.
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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)
- 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
- Heart of Means Treatise
- Hymn to the Dharmadhātu
- Treatise on Transition between Existences
- 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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