c. 150–250 CE · Indian (Madhyamaka Buddhist)
Founder of the Middle Way school and the philosophy of emptiness.
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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