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Causality and Emptiness - The Wisdom of Nagarjuna
Often referred to as "the second Buddha", Nagarjuna proffered trenchant criticisms of Brahminical and Buddhist substantialist
philosophy, theory of knowledge and approaches to practice. Nagarjuna's central concept of the "emptiness of all things",
which pointed to the incessantly changing and so never fixed nature of all phenomena, served as much as the terminological
prop of subsequent Buddhist philosophical thinking as the vexation of opposed Vedic systems
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