Master catalogue of all wiki pages, organised by type.
Primary Texts (4 total)
- Mūlamadhyamakakārikā — Nāgārjuna’s root verses
- Madhyamakāvatāra — Candrakīrti’s Entering the Middle Way
- Madhyamakālaṅkāra — Śāntarakṣita’s Adornment of the Middle Way
- Satyadvayāvatāra — Atiśa’s Entry to the Two Realities
Scholars (17 total)
- Westerhoff — Oxford, analytic + commentarial method, equilibrium principle
- Gorampa — Sakya, freedom from extremes, fourfold negation, two-level ultimate truth
- Tsongkhapa — Geluk, systematic Prāsaṅgika, six-fold negation of intrinsic existence, phenomena posited through mere conceptualisation
- Dolpopa — Jonang, zhentong, ultimate as truly existent tathāgatagarbha
- Tāranātha — Jonang, concise zhentong synthesis, Great Middle Way
- Kalupahana — Sri Lankan, anti-systematic, MMK as Kaccāyanagotta commentary, empiricist pragmatist reading
- Śāntarakṣita — Indian Yogācāra-Madhyamaka, “neither one nor many” argument, two-step method
- Mipham — Nyingma, Svātantrika-Prāsaṅgika as pedagogical convergence, indivisibility of Two Truths
- Ninth Karmapa — Kagyü, Prāsaṅgika, three stages of analysis, “partial emptiness” critique of Tsongkhapa, no thesis of one’s own
- Eighth Karmapa — Kagyü, principal Kagyü Madhyamaka commentator, Chariot of the Takpo Kagyü Siddhas
- Ruegg — European academic, Indo-Tibetan philology and philosophy, multi-criterial analysis of the S-P distinction
- Burton — Western analytic / Buddhist practitioner, Nāgārjuna’s emptiness entails nihilism, prajñaptimātra requires unconstructed basis
- Shakya Chokden — Sakya (heterodox), grand unity of Yogācāra and Madhyamaka, Alīkākāravāda = Madhyamaka, self-emptiness AND other-emptiness
- Komarovski — Academic, foremost modern scholar of Shakya Chokden
- Atiśa — Indian, “pure” undifferentiated Madhyamaka (“Great Madhyamaka”), Candrakīrti lineage, contemplative over scholastic
- Apple — Academic (Calgary), recovery of Kadampa manuscripts, Atiśa’s Madhyamaka
- Jinpa — Geluk-trained academic (Cambridge), translator of Tsongkhapa, sympathetic historical reconstruction
Arguments (0 total)
Concepts (6 total)
- Emptiness — śūnyatā, the central Madhyamaka doctrine
- Svabhāva — intrinsic nature, the object of Madhyamaka negation
- Two Truths — satyadvaya, the pedagogical and ontological structure
- Non-affirming Negation — prasajyapratiṣedha / med dgag, the form of Madhyamaka negation
- Prāsaṅgika-Svātantrika — the two sub-schools of Indian/Tibetan Madhyamaka
- Tathāgatagarbha — Buddha-nature, the matrix-of-One-Gone-Thus
Sources (14 total)
- westerhoff-madhyamaka-2009 — Westerhoff’s systematic philosophical introduction to Nāgārjuna; threefold svabhāva analysis, anti-realism, cognitive dimension
- westerhoff-nihilist-2016 — Westerhoff’s defence of a sophisticated nihilist reading of Madhyamaka
- gorampa-distinguishing-views-1469 — Gorampa’s threefold taxonomy and critique of Tsongkhapa and Dolpopa
- taranatha-essence-other-emptiness-2007 — Tāranātha’s concise Jonang presentation of zhentong, with extensive Dolpopa citations
- tsongkhapa-illuminating-intent-1418 — Tsongkhapa’s mature commentary on Candrakīrti’s Madhyamakāvatāra; object of negation, two truths, Prāsaṅgika-Svātantrika
- kalupahana-mmk-1986 — Kalupahana’s MMK translation and commentary; Nāgārjuna as empiricist pragmatist, MMK as commentary on the Kaccāyanagotta Sutta
- shantarakshita-madhyamakalankara — Śāntarakṣita’s Yogācāra-Madhyamaka synthesis with Mipham’s commentary; “neither one nor many” argument, two-step method, approximate/actual ultimate
- karmapa-feast-fortunate-1578 — Ninth Karmapa’s abridgement of the Eighth Karmapa’s MA commentary; Kagyü Prāsaṅgika, three stages of analysis, “partial emptiness” critique of Tsongkhapa
- ruegg-svat-pras-2006 — Ruegg’s historical-critical analysis of the Svātantrika-Prāsaṅgika distinction; six interrelated criteria, all converging on the status of saṃvṛti; distinction as dynamic, not frozen dichotomy
- burton-emptiness-appraised-1999 — Burton’s analytic appraisal of Nāgārjuna’s philosophy; universal niḥsvabhāva = prajñaptimātra entails nihilism; paradigm case for framework-removal
- komarovski-visions-unity-2011 — Komarovski’s study of Shakya Chokden’s grand unity of Yogācāra and Madhyamaka; Alīkākāravāda = Madhyamaka on a par with Niḥsvabhāvavāda
- apple-jewels-middle-way-2018 — Apple’s recovery of Atiśa’s “pure” Madhyamaka from Kadampa manuscripts; contemplative Candrakīrti lineage, rejection of pramāṇa, no wisdom-continuum at buddhahood
- jinpa-tsongkhapa-qualms-1999 — Jinpa’s reconstruction of Tsongkhapa’s three qualms (nihilism, absolutism, quietism); four misreadings of Prāsaṅgika; dependent origination as the content of emptiness
- tenpa-tibetan-battleground-notes — Tenpa’s own working synthesis of MA 1.8 and 3.11 polemics (Tsongkhapa, Gorampa, Eighth Karmapa, Mipham) and Dolpopa’s zhentong reading of the MA; quotations pending primary-source verification