Nagarjuna's Mula-Madhyamaka-Karika: Examination of Conditions

What if nothing that exists has ever truly arisen?In the opening chapter of his Mūla-Madhyamaka-kārikā, the second-century philosopher Nāgārjuna dismantles one of the most fundamental assumptions of human thinking — that things have causes, and causes produce effects. With fourteen spare verses, he unravels the four conditions of the Abhidharma tradition and opens the door to śūnyatā — emptiness.E...