Nagarjuna
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Nāgārjuna was an Indian scholar-monk, philosopher, and teacher of Mahayana Buddhism from south India. He is considered the founder of the Madhyamaka school.
Painting of Nāgārjuna (18th century)
A model of the Amaravati Stupa
A Tibetan depiction of Nagarjuna; the snakes are depicted as protectors around Nagarjuna's head and the nagas rising out of the water are offering Buddhist sutras.
Nicholas Roerich "Nagarjuna Conqueror of the Serpent" (1925)
Śūnyatā
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Śūnyatā is an Indian philosophical concept in Buddhism, Jainism, Hinduism, and other Indian philosophical traditions. The concept has multiple meanings depending on its doctrinal context: an ontologic
Nagarjuna
…Nāgārjuna remains a key figure in all contemporary traditions of Mahāyāna Buddhism, and his philosophical writings on the doctrine of “emptiness” (śūnyatā) influenced Indian philosophy for a millennium, as well as being an indispensable doctrinal source for Mahāyāna doctrine in East Asian Buddhism and…
A simile from the Pali scriptures (SN 22.95) compares form and feelings with foam and bubbles.
Sea froth at sunset
The empty space where the Western Buddha of Bamiyan resided prior to being destroyed by the Taliban
In the Prajñaparamita sutras, the emptiness of phenomena is often illustrated by metaphors like drops of dew.