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Nāgārjuna नागार्जुन

c. 150–250 CE · Indian (Madhyamaka Buddhist)

Founder of the Middle Way school and the philosophy of emptiness.

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yaḥ pratītyasamutpādaḥ śūnyatāṃ tāṃ pracakṣmahe

Original (Sanskrit)

“Whatever is dependently co-arisen, that we declare to be emptiness.”

Mūlamadhyamakakārikā 24.18

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