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The Dispeller of Disputes (Vigrahavyāvartanī)

विग्रहव्यावर्तनी (Vigrahavyāvartanī); tib. Rtsod pa bzlog pa; chin. 迴諍論 Huízhèng lùn

byNāgārjuna

Seventy verses with a prose auto-commentary, preserved in Sanskrit, Tibetan and Chinese. Nāgārjuna sets out twenty objections from a Buddhist realist and a Nyāya logician —if everything is empty, so is your argument, which therefore proves nothing— and answers them: an empty statement can do its work as one magically created man stops another, and he defends no thesis that could be refuted. It also contains a critique of the means of valid knowledge of Indian epistemology.

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