Lucid Exposition of the Middle Way: The Essential Chapters From The Prasannapada of Candrakirti

Originally published in 1979. The Prasannapada is the explanation of the versed aphorisms of Nagarjuna which are the first and basic statement of the Buddhist philosophy of the middle way. When first published, this volume was the first attempt, in any European language, to present all the essentials of this most radical of Buddhist philosophical works. Seventeen of its twenty-seven chapters have been chosen to give an integrated statement of every aspect of its arguments and conclusions.

Concern, Method and Assumptions of the Middle Way Philosophy Attack on the Possibility of Knowledge Enquiry into Conditions Motion and Rest Vision and the Other Sense Faculties Material Objects and the Other Factors of Personal Existence The Primal Elements or Character & Characteristic Desire and Other Afflictions The Agent Subject and His Doing Self as Subject of Perception Fire and Fuel The Absence of Being in Things Self-Existence Self and the Way Things Really Are Time The Perfectly Realized One The Basic Afflictions and the Four Misbeliefs The Four Buddhist Truths Nirvana