ABSTRACT
Nāgārjuna (c. second century CE) is the founder of the Madhyamaka school of Buddhist philosophy, and one of the most influential Indian Buddhist philosophers. His texts develop the doctrines of the emptiness of all phenomena of intrinsic nature; of the two truths and their identity; and a coherentist theory of knowledge. His corpus includes systematic philosophical texts, texts addressed to lay people and hymns. Nāgārjuna inspired a number of important commentaries composed in India, China and Tibet.
