Nāgārjuna’s Mahāyāna-viṃśaka

Nāgārjuna was the 2nd-century ce founder of the Madhyamaka school of Indian Buddhist philosophy. He is best known for his articulation and defense of the core Mahāyāna claim that a...

The Heart Sutra is one of several texts that are classed as Prajnaparamita Sutras, or “Perfection of Wisdom” texts. Perfection of Wisdom scriptures are associated with the first ex...

Identifying images of specific bodhisattvas whose names appear in Mahāyāna scriptures is one possible way to track evidence for the early Mahāyāna, and the author turned to this me...

This chapter begins with some general observations about the study of early Mahāyāna Buddhism and of its origins. It goes on to consider briefly a number of issues which continue t...

The chapter investigates some aspects of the so-called ‘Bajaur Mahāyāna sūtra’. This text is part of the growing corpus of Mahāyāna literature from ancient Gandhāra. According to i...

ABSTRACT The aim of this paper is to provide a sketch on the way Nāgārjuna deals with the idea of 'relation'. The concept of 'relation' as expressed in the Pāli sources is here the...

The origin, nature, organization, and influence of the collection of Buddhist movements subsumed under the label “Mahayana” (Great Vehicle) have long been a matter of scholarly and...

Emptiness literally translates the Sanskrit śūnyatā. While variously interpreted, it always points to the absence of some ontological feature of substance or essence that living be...