Candrakirti Quotes on Truth
Candrakirti was an Indian Buddhist philosopher of the seventh century and the most important Madhyamaka commentator of the consequentialist, or Prasangika, school. This page collects quotes attributed to Candrakirti on the topic of truth, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Candrakirti:
“The Madhyamika has no thesis of his own; he refutes only by consequence.”
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Attributed to Candrakirti:
“Emptiness is not the death of phenomena; it is the explanation of how phenomena are possible at all.”
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Attributed to Candrakirti:
“Things arise dependently; therefore they have no intrinsic nature.”
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Attributed to Candrakirti:
“The wise do not cling to emptiness any more than to existence.”
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Attributed to Candrakirti:
“What dependently arises is what is empty, and what is empty is the path.”