]> 2026-10-11T11:34:10-04:00 People/Candrakīrti 0 en Madhyamaka An important Madhyamaka master and commentator on the works of Nāgārjuna and Āryadeva, associated especially with what would later be known as the Prāsaṅgika branch of Madhyamaka. Very little is known about his life; according to Tibetan sources, he was from south India and a student of Kamalabuddhi. He may have been a monk of Nālandā. He wrote commentaries on Nāgārjuna’s ''Yuktiṣaṣṭikā'' and ''Śūnyatāsaptati'' as well as Āryadeva's ''Catuḥśataka''. His two most famous and influential works, however, are his ''Prasannapadā'' (''Clear Words''), which is a commentary on Nāgārjuna's ''Mūlamadhyamakakārikā'', and his ''Madhyamakāvatāra'' (''Entrance to the Middle Way''). (Source: "Candrakīrti." In ''The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism'', 165. Princeton University Press, 2014. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt46n41q.27.) false true false Person false false false false People File:Chandrakirti.jpeg https://commons.tsadra.org/images/5/54/Chandrakirti.jpeg true true true File:Chandrakirti.jpeg File:Candrakīrti.jpg File:Chandrakirti.jpeg;File:Candrakīrti.jpg Candrakīrti;Candrakīrti;ཟླ་བ་གྲགས་པ་;zla ba grags pa;Candrakīrti false Candrakīrti Candrakīrti ཟླ་བ་གྲགས་པ་ zla ba grags pa Chandrakirti.jpeg Candrakīrti ཟླ་བ་གྲགས་པ་ zla ba grags pa Classical Indian Authors Provisional Tathāgatagarbha was Taught Merely to Encourage Sentient Beings to Enter the Path "Buddha nature was taught merely as a means of temporarily easing ordinary persons of their fear of selflessness and of attracting non-Buddhists." [[Kano, K.]] [[Buddha-Nature and Emptiness]], p. 9. Nalanda Prāsaṅgika Madhyamaka Nāgārjuna Āryadeva Classical An important Madhyamaka master and commentator on the works of Nāgārjuna and Āryadeva, associated especially with what would later be known as the Prāsaṅgika branch of Madhyamaka. Very little is known about his life; according to Tibetan sources, he was from south India and a student of Kamalabuddhi. He may have been a monk of Nālandā. He wrote commentaries on Nāgārjuna’s ''Yuktiṣaṣṭikā'' and ''Śūnyatāsaptati'' as well as Āryadeva's ''Catuḥśataka''. His two most famous and influential works, however, are his ''Prasannapadā'' (''Clear Words''), which is a commentary on Nāgārjuna's ''Mūlamadhyamakakārikā'', and his ''Madhyamakāvatāra'' (''Entrance to the Middle Way''). (Source: "Candrakīrti." In ''The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism'', 165. Princeton University Press, 2014. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt46n41q.27.) Candrakīrti;ཟླ་བ་གྲགས་པ་;zla ba grags pa;Candrakīrti;;; ; ; c. 570 c. 640 2019-03-28T22:33:08Z 2458571.4396759 2020-03-16T14:11:29Z 2458925.0913079 false People/Candrakīrti 0 0 template commons 1 [[:Candrakīrti]] People/Candrakīrti# QUERY0ad59a7f85318505e59c183bf8a2bfd7 0 200 1 template 13 <q>[[BuNayAuthor::Candrakīrti]] [[BuNayPageType::!Person]] OR [[People::Candrakīrti||People/Candrakīrti]] [[BuNayPageType::!Person]] OR [[Performer::People/Candrakīrti]] [[BuNayPageType::!Person]]</q> People/Candrakīrti# QUERYff21f7fafbc6ddebb9c652cde466ae14 0 200 1 template 3 [[Category:Library Items]] [[BuNayTopicTags::People/Candrakīrti]] People/Candrakīrti# QUERY0e61fb066cf9b161e6d1a168136d2a4a Books/History of Buddhism (Chos-hbyung), Part 2 0 en History of Buddhism (Chos-hbyung), Part 2 Media/Khenpo Tenzin Norgay: On Candrakīrti and Nāgārjuna and Why They Emphasized Emptiness over Clarity 0 en Khenpo Tenzin Norgay: On Candrakīrti and Nāgārjuna and Why They Emphasized Emptiness over Clarity Articles/Sanskrit Verses from Candrakīrtiʼs Triśaraṇasaptati Cited in the Munimatālaṃkāra 0 en Sanskrit Verses from Candrakīrtiʼs Triśaraṇasaptati Cited in the Munimatālaṃkāra Books/The Buddhist Theory of Self according to Acarya Candrakirti 0 en The Buddhist Theory of Self according to Acarya Candrakirti Books/The Philosophy of Buddhism 0 en The Philosophy of Buddhism Texts/Pradīpoddyotana-nāma-ṭīkā 0 en '"`UNIQ--noglossary-00000000-QINU`"' Texts/Madhyamakāvatāra 0 en '"`UNIQ--noglossary-00000000-QINU`"' Media/David Germano: On Longchenpa's View of Prāsaṅgika Madhyamaka 0 en David Germano: On Longchenpa's View of Prāsaṅgika Madhyamaka Media/Dorji Wangchuk at the 2019 Tathāgatagarbha Symposium 0 en Dorji Wangchuk at the 2019 Tathāgatagarbha Symposium Media/Karl Brunnhölzl: On the Eighth Karmapa Mikyö Dorje's View of Buddha-Nature 0 en Karl Brunnhölzl: On the Eighth Karmapa Mikyö Dorje's View of Buddha-Nature Media/Yaroslav Komarovski: On the Development of Shakya Chokden's Views 0 en Yaroslav Komarovski: On the Development of Shakya Chokden's Views Candrakīrti 0 en Candrakīrti BuNayTopicTags 102 en BuNayTopicTags BuNayAuthor 102 en BuNayAuthor PeopleMentioned 102 en PeopleMentioned REDI 102 en REDI