The History of Buddhist Thought c25.s1.7

c25.s1.7

We have seen the scope of Nāgārjuna’s work. It was a systematization of the doctrine that first appears in the Mahāyāna sūtras. But this was probably only the final outcome of what had already been taught in a systematic form in the monasteries.³ Another author who contributed to it was Āryadeva, and it continued to flourish and be commented on for centuries.