Madhyamika

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[mahd-yuh-mi-kuh] / mɑdˈyʌ mɪ kə /

noun

Buddhism.

1. a school of philosophy, of a.d. c200, that attempted a reconciliation with Hinayana from a Mahayana position.

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Etymology

Origin of Madhyamika

From Sanskrit

Example Sentences

Thus even the Mádhyamika's opinion that "liberation consists in the abolition of soul," does not controvert our point, so far at any rate as that it is the abolition of pain.

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Thus the teaching of Bodhidharma is an anticipation of Śankara's monism, but it is formulated in consistently Buddhist language and is in harmony with the views of the Mâdhyamika school and of the Diamond-cutter.

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The affinity existing between the Mâdhyamika form of Buddhist metaphysics and the earlier Vedânta can hardly be disputed and the only question is which borrowed from the other.

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The Mâdhyamika theory that objects have no absolute and independent existence but appear to exist in virtue of their relations is a restatement of this ancient dictum.

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But for all that the doctrine of śûnyatâ as stated in the Mâdhyamika aphorisms ascribed to Nâgârjuna leaves an impression of audacious and ingenious sophistry.

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