Aspects of Mahayana Buddhism and its Relation to Hinayana c7.s3.t24.1
Aspects of Mahāyāna Buddhism and its Relation to Hīnayāna c7.s3.t24.1
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c7.s3.t24.1
Nāgārjuna, we see, leads us through a maze of arguments to the same conclusion that the Prajñāpāramitās have reached by every possible negation. Candrakīrti quotes a stanza from the Prajñāpāramitā itself in support of Nāgārjuna's contention that Nirvāṇa or the Truth is the inexpressible absolute and is different from the Tathatā or Tathā- gata, descriptions of which are to be found in Mahāyānic works. The stanza runs thus: