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100			_aSantina, Peter Della.
245			_aMadhyamaka schools in India : _ba study of the Madhyamaka philosophy and of the division of the system into the Prāsaṅgika and Svātantrika schools / _cPeter Della Santina.
260			_aDelhi : _bMotilal Banarsidass, _c1986.
300			_axi, 242 p. : _bill. ; _c23 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical reference and index.
520			_aThis Volume traces the development of one of the most divisive debates in Buddhist philosophy in which leading parts were taken by Nagarjuna, Bhavaviveka and Candrakirti. The interesting debate between the Prasangikas and Svatantrikas has thus far received comparatively little attention. It has been largely assumed that the division between the two schools occurred as a result of the disagreements on the essentials of the Madhyamaka philosophical view. In the present work the author argues that the school split not over philosophy but over forensic methodology or in other words, over the way in which the philosophy of emptiness was to be communicated to and vindicated for others. He draws substantially on the Tibetan sources to prove his viewpoint. He also makes use of Nagarjuna's Mulamadhya makakarika and Candrakirti's Prasannapadanamadhyamakavrtti. The volume extends not only the current understanding of the Madhyamaka system, but also offers a new and eminently reasonable interpretation of the nature of the divisions between the Prasangikas and Svatantrikas.
650			_aMādhyamika (Buddhism).
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