Nagarjuna has held continuous attention of Buddhist scholars in Asia since his own day. His ideas, subtle yet profound, carried such deep understanding of fundamental Buddhist truths that they have influenced, in one way or another, most Mahayana developments in India, China, Tibet, Korea and Japan.
This text presents the system of thought established by Nagarjuna through a complete translation of his major work, the Mulamadhyamakakarika. The English translation is presented in sequence with the romanized version of the Sanskrit verses for easy reference, while, at the start of each chapter, an introduction illuminates the content of each chapter.

Nagarjuna, Kenneth K. Inada, Sri Satguru Publications, Hardcover, 204 pages, $20.00

Nagarjuna (circa 2nd Centry C.E.), one of Buddhism's greatest philosophers, has held continuous attention of Buddhist scholars in Asia since his own day. Even today he comamnds the greatest attention in the Western world insfoar as philosophic Mahayana tradition is concerned. Though he did not establish a school of a system fo thought as such, he did attract such overwhelming interest and appeal on the part of the masses by way of his unique writings that a tradition of a sort soon arose during his lifetime and a large following in consquence of it. His ideas though subtle and profound, carried such deep understanding and implications of fundamental Buddhist truths that they will influence, one way or another, all or most the subsequent Mahayana developments in India, China, Tibet, Korea and Japan.

Kenneth K. Inada is Distinguished Service Professor at Department of Philosophy, State University of New York at Buffalo.