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University of Leeds
An annotated translation of the Chung-lun : with Nagarjuna's Middle stanzas, a basic text of Chinese Buddhism
Abstract
dc:description.abstractThe thesis comprises a critical introduction and complete translation into English of the Chinese Buddhist text 'Chung-lun' (Middle Treatise), T. 1564, Kumärajiva's translation of a commentary on Nägärjuna's mülamadhyamakakarikä (Middle Stanzas) by Vimaläksa (or Pingala), dated 409AD. The translation consists of twenty-seven chapters corresponding to the divisions of the kärikä. The notes to the translation discuss ideas, arguments and allusions in the Treatise as well as textual issues and points of translation.
Degree
thesis:*- Name dc:type.qualificationname
- Ph.D
- Level dc:type.qualificationlevel
- doctoral
- Grantor dc:publisher.institution
- University of Leeds
- Year dc:date.issued
- 1984
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
-
- Bocking, Brian Christopher
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Identifier
- uk.bl.ethos.515608
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:etheses.whiterose.ac.uk:928