Early Monastic Buddhism v1.c9.15

v1.c9.15

What the *Saṃyutta Nikāya* has laid down by a few simple statements has been elaborated into a whole chapter¹ in the *Mādhyamikavṛtti*. Nāgārjuna (henceforth abbreviated as N.) commences (the chapter) with the statement that, if the existence of transmigrating beings (*bhavasaṃtati*) in reality be proved then only the reality of the Tathāgata, the perfect Buddha, the saviour of the world, can be established, but as the former, is not proved, the existence of the Tathāgata cannot be established. It must be shown that the