The Root Stanzas on The Middle Way

Translated from the Tibetan by the Padmakara Translation Group

Mulamadhyamaka-Karika

Padmakara

199

2008

9782916915449

Emptiness

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The Root Stanzas holds an honored place in all branches of Tibetan Buddhism, as well as in the Buddhist traditions found in China, Japan, and Korea, because of the way it develops the seminal view of emptiness (shunyata), which is crucial to understanding Mahayana Buddhism and central to its practice. It is prized for its pithy and pointed arguments that show that things lack intrinsic being and thus are “empty” (shunya). They abide in the Middle Way, free from the extremes of permanence and annihilation.