There is also evidence that the Prajñaptivādins were an influence on Nāgārjuna, who is also among the storied promulgators of the two truths doctrine ( using some of the same technical terms ), and who in his Mūlamadhyamakakārikā only cites one text by name, that being the Kātyāyana Gotra Sūtra, of which the Prajñaptivādins were known to be fond.

In particular, several important works of esoteric Buddhism ( most notably the Pañcakrama or " Five Stages ") are attributed to Nāgārjuna and his disciples.

There exist a number of influential texts attributed to Nāgārjuna though, as there are many pseudepigrapha attributed to him, lively controversy exists over which are his authentic works.

Conversely, emptiness as described by Nāgārjuna has been interpreted, notably by Murti in his influential 1955 work, as a Buddhist absolute.

Later, Buddhist philosophers like Nāgārjuna would question whether the dharmas ( momentary elements of consciousness ) truly have a separate existence of their own.

Nāgārjuna is credited with developing the philosophy of the Prajñāpāramitā Sūtras — even, in some sources, with having ( re ) revealed these scriptures in the world, having recovered them from the realm of the nāga-s ( snake / dragon spirits )— and is also sometimes associated with the Buddhist university of Nālandā.

According to a 4th / 5th-century biography translated by Kumārajīva, Nāgārjuna was born into a Brahmin family, and later became a Buddhist.

Contemporary research suggests that these works are datable to a significantly later period in Buddhist history ( late eighth or early ninth century ), but the tradition of which they are a part maintains that they are the work of the Madhyamaka Nāgārjuna and his school.

Nāgārjuna was also instrumental in the development of the two-truths doctrine, which claims that there are two levels of truth or reality in Buddhist teaching, the ultimate reality ( paramārtha satya ) and the conventionally or superficial reality ( saṃvṛtisatya ).

In the Buddhist traditions of India, Pure Land doctrines and practices were disseminated by well-known exponents of the Mahāyāna teachings, including Nāgārjuna and Vasubandhu.

The consensus is that Nāgārjuna defended the classical Buddhist emphasis on phenomena.

He combined this with a strong emphasis on the cultivation of in-depth insight into the doctrine of emptiness as propounded by the Indian Madhyamaka masters Nāgārjuna ( 2nd century ) and Candrakīrti ( 7th century ).

Some sources claim that Nāgārjuna lived on the mountain of Śrīparvata in his later years, near the city that would later be called Nāgārjunakoṇḍa (" Hill of Nāgārjuna ").

Lindtner considers that the Māhaprajñāparamitopadeśa, a huge commentary on the Large Prajñāparamita, not to be a genuine work of Nāgārjuna.

In articulating this notion, Nāgārjuna drew on an early source in the Kaccāyanagotta Sutta, which distinguishes definitive meaning ( nītārtha ) from interpretable meaning ( neyārtha ):

Yogacārins base their views on texts from Maitreya, Asaṅga and Vasubandhu, Madhyamakas on Nāgārjuna and Āryadeva.

He was a disciple of Nāgārjuna and a commentator on his works and those of his main disciple, Āryadeva.

Buddhapalita ( 470 – 550 ), a commentator on the works of Nāgārjuna and Aryadeva, was a great master and exponent of the Prasangika system.

Nāgārjuna based his statement of the two truths on the Kaccāyanagotta Sutta.

For Nāgārjuna, as for the Buddha in the early texts, it is not merely sentient beings that are " selfless " or non-substantial ; all phenomena are without any svabhāva, literally " own-being " or " self-nature ", and thus without any underlying essence.

Huiwen studied the works of Nāgārjuna, and is said to have awakened to the profound meaning of Nāgārjuna's words: " All conditioned phenomena I speak of as empty, and are but false names which also indicate the mean.

Actually, these two views are not necessarily in opposition, and a South Indian Nāgārjuna could well have studied in the northern Sarvāstivāda.

Fundamental Wisdom ( Mūlamadhyamakakārikā ) by Nāgārjuna, 13. 8 has:

Nāgārjuna, of the Mahāyāna Mādhyamika ( i. e., " Middle Way ") school, discusses nirmita, or illusion closely related to māyā.

Mary Jane might not be the most intelligent woman, but she was one of the most determined.

She began to watch a blonde-haired man, also in shorts, standing right at the rear of the wrecked car in the one spot that most of the crowd had detoured slightly.

Col. Henri Garvier was one of New Orleans' most important and enlightened slave owners.

He proudly wore the blue livery of her house, for the girl was Madame Delphine Lalaurie, wife of the prominent surgeon, Dr. Louis Lalaurie, who bore one of the South's oldest and most cherished names.

She was a top horsewoman and one of the city's most gracious hostesses.

The general acceptance of the idea of governmental ( i.e., societal ) responsibility for the economic well-being of the American people is surely one of the two most significant watersheds in American constitutional history.

Accidental war is so sensitive a subject that most of the people who could become directly involved in one are told just enough so they can perform their portions of incredibly complex tasks.

Now we must become vague, for we are approaching one of the nation's most guarded secrets.

Presenting an individualized Negro character, it would seem, is one of the most difficult assignments a Southern writer could tackle ; ;

Yet often fear persists because, even with the most rigid ritual, one is never quite free from the uneasy feeling that one might make some mistake or that in every previous execution one had been unaware of the really decisive act.

And it is precisely in this poorer economic class that one finds, and has always found, the most racial friction.

This sentence would have most of the characteristics of a question, but it has some of the characteristics of a statement because the questioner has conveyed the fact that he has no faith in his own timepiece or the one attached to his car.

While convalescing in his Virginia home he wrote a book recording his prison experiences and escape, entitled: They Shall Not Have Me Published originally in ( Helion's ) English by Dutton & Co. of New York, in 1943, the book was received by the press as a work of astonishing literary power and one of the most realistic accounts of World War 2, from the French side.

The men who speculate on these institutions have, for the most part, come to at least one common conclusion: that many of the great enterprises and associations around which our democracy is formed are in themselves autocratic in nature, and possessed of power which can be used to frustrate the citizen who is trying to assert his individuality in the modern world ''.

Whether you experienced the passion of desire I have, of course, no way of knowing, nor indeed have I wished with even the most fleeting fragment of a wish to know, for the fact that one constitutes by one's mere existence so to speak the proof of some sort of passion makes any speculation upon this part of one's parents' experience more immodest, more scandalizing, more deeply unwelcome than an obscenity from a stranger.

For innocence, of all the graces of the spirit, is I believe the one most to be prayed for.

Moreover, because of the particular blot on your family escutcheon through what may only have been one unbridled moment on your grandmother's part, and because you had the lean-to kitchen and trundle bed of your childhood to outgrow, what you obviously most desired with both your conscious and unconscious person, what you bent your whole will, sensibility, and intelligence upon, was to be a lady.

She designed and supervised the building of the Harbert, Michigan, house, most of which was constructed by one local carpenter who carried the heavy beams singly upon his shoulder.

Perhaps it is only an analogy, but one of the most obvious differences between cheap fiction and fiction of an enduring quality is the development of a theme or story with leisure and anticipation.

Certainly one of the most important comments that can be made upon the spiritual and cultural life of any period of Western civilization during the past sixteen or seventeen centuries has to do with the way in which its leaders have read and interpreted the Bible.

Very soon after his arrival in Little Rock, Pike had joined one of the most influential organizations in town, the Little Rock Debating Society, and it was with this group that he made his debut as an orator, being invited to deliver the annual Fourth of July address the club sponsored every year.

Samuel Gorton, founder of Warwick, was styled by the historian Samuel Greene Arnold `` one of the most remarkable men who ever lived ''.