The Continuity of Madhyamaka and Yogacara in Indian Mahayana Buddhism
By Ian Charles Harris
Some time past ecu students have tended to regard either Madhyamaka and Yog?c?ra as separate and essentially hostile developments in Mah?y?na Buddhist notion. Drawing seriously on early textual proof this paintings questions the validity of this sort of "Mah?y?na faculties" speculation. via down-playing the overdue commentorial traditions, the writer makes an attempt a common reappraisal of the epistemological and ontological writings of Nagarjuna, Asanga and Vasubandhu. He concludes that the overlap in all components of doctrine is important, yet quite with recognize to the lessons at the degrees of fact, the enlightened and unenlightened states, the prestige of language and the character of truth. it's was hoping that such investigations may supply the foundation for a brand new conception at the proliferation of Indian Mah?y?na Buddhism as an natural means of assimilation to new audiences, and particular modern difficulties, instead of within the extra schismatic demeanour favoured via earlier researchers.
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The two verses of the mahgalafloka seem to confirm this since they speak of a pratitysamutpada taught by the Buddha. It is said the equate with the shutting off ofprapahca and is in consequence without destruction, production, neither annihilated nor eternal, neither differentiated nor undifferentiated and without coming or going. v. 24-26. 36 . kalpandm dtram ity asm dt sarvadharmdh prakdšitdh kalpandpy a sa tip ro k td ya yd šíinyam vikalpyate. 20 PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION OF MADHYAMAKA ONTOLOGY yah pratityasam utpadam prapahcopafam am Sivam deiayam asa sam buddhah tarn vande vandatam varam This sounds very much like the earlier discussed idea of reality (tattva) which is realised, through jhana, to be free of all dichotomously con structed distinctions.
Thus the class o f empty phenom ena (pratltyasam utpada) is the complement of the own-being or null class ... 29 Things are not totally non-existence but simply falsely imputed to have own-being {svabháva). In fact these dharmas are svabhávaÉünya and can not be confused with any null class from a logical point of view. Actually, 27 28 29 Nakamura, H. St. 7/1 (1958) p. 1-21. First published in Japanese 1954. cf. p. 14-15. M M K. xxiv. 14. sarvam ca yujyate tasya iunyata yasya yujyate sarvam na yujyate tasya i unyam yasya na yujyate Robinson (1957) p.
110 Ruegg The Literature o f the M adhyam aka School p. 22 W . 1-2 sarvesäm bhävänäm sarvatra na vidyate svabhavaS cet tvadvacanam asvabhävam na nivartayitum svabhävam alam atha sasvabhävam etad väkyam pürvä h a tä pratijna te vaisamikatvam tasmin vifesahetuS ca vaktavyah 40 NAGARJUNA AND LOGIC give up his thesis. This is confusing but, as far as Nagarjuna's position is concerned there is no negating anything, otherwise one would be forced to accept the neganda. 51 In his reply, Nagarjuna makes a distinction between indicating an absence of own being and negating the existence of own being.
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