Candrakirti's Madhyamakavatarabhasya: Chapters 1 to 5, critically and diplomatically edited on the basis of preparatory work by Helmut Krasser

This book contains a critical Sanskrit edition of the first five chapters of a work that presents the steps of the path to full Awakening according to the "Great Vehicle" of Buddhism. The author of the work, the Indian scholar Candrakirti (circa A.D. 570-650), is one of the most important representatives of the Madhyamaka, the "Middle Way" school. A central theme of the tradition is the emptiness or lack of reality of all things and beings. Those aspiring to achieve Awakening, the bodhisatt...