Приписывается: Nāgārjuna
«Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.»
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Этого нет в трудах: Nāgārjuna
A sentence widely spread on English quotation sites under his name and without reference. It is a modern paraphrase of the doctrine, not a translation of any verse that can be located in the corpus.
Источник: Siderits, Mark, y Shōryū Katsura (trads.). Nāgārjuna's Middle Way: Mūlamadhyamakakārikā. Boston: Wisdom Publications, 2013. ISBN 9781614290506.
Что было сказано на самом деле
Подлинные слова: 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