DESCRIPTION
The Mūlamadhyamakakārikā मूलमध्यमककारिका 'Root Verses on the Middle Way’ is a foundational text of many schools of Mahāyāna Buddhism. It was composed by Nāgārjuna around 150 CE, considered by many to be his magnum opus.
TRANSLATIONS
Mūlamadhyamakakārikā(LUSB Standardized Ed.)Mūlamadhyamakakārikā(Chinese w/ Commentary)Mūlamadhyamakakārikā (Sanskrit)From Sanskrit
Streng, Frederick in Emptiness: A Study in Religious Meaning, 1967
Inada, Kenneth K. in Nagarjuna: A Translation of his Mulamadhyamakakarika With an Introductory Essay, 1970
Sprung, Mervyn in Lucid Exposition of the Middle Way, 1979
Kalupahana, David J. in Nagarjuna: The Philosophy of the Middle Way, 1986
McCagney, Nancy in Nagarjuna and the Philosophy of Openness, 1997
Gudō Wafu Nishijima and Brad Warner in Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way: Nagarjuna's Mulamadhyamakakarika, 2011
Mark Siderits and Shōryū Katsura in Nāgārjuna's Middle Way: Mūlamadhyamakakārikā, 2012
Richard Jones in Nagarjuna: Buddhism's Most Important Philosopher, 2014
From Tibetan
Garfield, Jay L. in The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way, 1995 (From Tibetan)
Batchelor, Stephen in Verses from the Center, 2000
Luetchford, Michael J. in Between Heaven and Earth - From Nagarjuna to Dogen, 2002
Padmakara Translation Group in The Root Stanzas on the Middle Way, 2008
Mabja Jangchub Tsöndrü in Ornament of Reason: The Great Commentary to Nagarjuna's Root of the Middle Way, 2011
From Chinese
Bocking, Brian in Nagarjuna in China: A Translation of the Middle Treatise, 1995 (from the Chinese)