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Candrakīrti


Chandrakirti (IAST: Candrakīrti; traditional Chinese: 月称; pinyin: Yuèchēng; Japanese: Gesshō; Tibetan: ཟླ་བ་གྲགས་པ་Wylie: zla ba grags pa, Lhasa dialect IPA: tàwa ʈʰàʔpa; c. 600 – c. 650) was a Buddhist scholar at Nalanda Mahavihara in Northern India. He was a disciple of Nagarjuna and a commentator on his works and those of his main disciple, Aryadeva. He was born in Samanta, South India.

Chandrakirti was the most famous member of what the Tibetans came to call the Uma Thelgyur (Wylie: dbu ma thal 'gyur) school, an approach to the interpretation of Madhyamaka philosophy typically back-translated into Sanskrit as Prāsaṅgika or rendered in English as the "Consequentialist" or "Dialecticist" school.


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