Nāgārjuna [c. 150 – c. 250 CE (disputed)] was an Indian Mahāyāna Buddhistphilosopher monk of the Madhyamaka (Centrism, Middle Way) school.[2] He is widely considered one of the most important Buddhist philosophers.[3] Jan Westerhoffconsiders him to be "one of the greatest thinkers in the history of Asian philosophy."[4]
Nāgārjuna is widely considered to be the founder of the Madhyamaka school of Buddhist philosophy and a defender of the Mahāyāna movement.[3][5] His Mūlamadhyamakakārikā (Root Verses on Madhyamaka, MMK) is the most important text on the Madhyamaka philosophy of emptiness. The MMK inspired a large number of commentaries in Sanskrit, Chinese, Tibetan, Korean and Japanese and continues to be studied today.[6]
中觀派（梵語：माध्यमक, mādhyamaka），是印度大乘佛教教內的兩大主要學派之一，由龍樹、聖天（又稱提婆）所奠基，又稱作空宗、性空宗、破相宗、勝義皆空宗，與瑜伽行唯識派（有宗、法相宗）並列為「空、有二宗」，或「性、相二宗」。
