The History of Buddhist Thought c25.34

c25.34

² The name of the school of Nāgārjuna is *Mādhyamika* “follower of the *madhyamā pratipat*, the Middle Way or Path ”, and there is little doubt that the term is taken from the first sermon of Buddha, where the Middle Path is preached. But the old meaning was transformed, and for Nāgārjuna it was the middle path between asserting the real existence of dharmas and denying them in the sense of negating a possible real.