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The 44 pages that link to Madhyamaka, each with the reason it gives.

• Tibetan BuddhismRelated: Its arguments about emptiness underpin influential Tibetan systems of Buddhist philosophy.

• MahayanaBroader topic: It is one influential philosophical interpretation, not the whole of Mahayana.

• Buddha-natureCompared with: Its emphasis on emptiness challenges readings of Buddha-nature as a substantial essence.

• XuanzangCompared with: Xuanzang's Yogācāra commitments differed from Madhyamaka interpretations debated in Chinese Buddhism.

• Dependent originationRelated: It treats dependent origination as central to the analysis of emptiness.

• Four Noble TruthsRelated: Its account of emptiness reframes how suffering, cessation, and the path are understood.

• GelugRelated: Gelug philosophy gives a prominent role to Madhyamaka analysis.

• BodhicittaRelated: Wisdom of emptiness complements bodhicitta in many accounts of the path.

• NagarjunaNarrower topic: Nagarjuna’s writings became the tradition’s foundational philosophical works.

• YogācāraCompared with: Its approach to emptiness differs from Yogācāra’s characteristic analysis of consciousness.

• Buddhist philosophyBroader topic: Its analysis of emptiness makes dependent origination central to philosophical reasoning.

• MonismCompared with: Its rejection of intrinsic foundations differs from monism’s assertion of one ultimate principle.

• ŚūnyatāBroader topic: It develops systematic arguments against intrinsic existence.

• AbhidharmaCompared with: Madhyamaka critiques Abhidharma claims that dharmas possess ultimate existence.

• TsongkhapaNarrower topic: Tsongkhapa’s most influential philosophical work develops a distinctive interpretation of this tradition.

• Two truths doctrineBroader topic: Its account makes conventional and ultimate truth inseparable without equating them.

• DzogchenRelated: Dzogchen and Madhyamaka share an emphasis on emptiness, while presenting realization through different frameworks.

• MahamudraRelated: Mahamudra accounts often use Madhyamaka reasoning to articulate the nature of mind.

• EmptinessBroader topic: Madhyamaka develops emptiness through systematic reasoning about dependence and existence.

• Five aggregatesRelated: It extends scrutiny from the self to the aggregates themselves.

• PrajñāRelated: Its reasoning cultivates insight into emptiness, a central Mahāyāna account of prajñā.

• VasubandhuCompared with: Its approach to emptiness differs from Yogācāra’s characteristic analysis of cognition and experience.

• VisuddhimaggaCompared with: Its philosophical method differs from the Visuddhimagga’s Theravada Abhidhamma framework.

• Heart SutraRelated: Madhyamaka offers a systematic philosophical framework for interpreting the sutra’s claims.

• Buddhist logicRelated: Its critique of intrinsic nature creates tensions with the realist assumptions debated by Buddhist logicians.

• Indian philosophyBroader topic: Its analysis of emptiness challenges claims of permanent self and independent substances.

• Sanskrit Buddhist literatureNarrower topic: Sanskrit treatises helped transmit and develop this influential philosophical tradition.

• DharmapālaCompared with: Its analyses of emptiness differ from Yogācāra accounts of consciousness and experience.

• Mahayana sutrasRelated: Prajnaparamita sutras supplied central sources for its account of emptiness.

• NondualismBroader topic: Its critique of fixed subject and object differs from claims of an ultimate underlying unity.

• PratītyasamutpādaBroader topic: It interprets dependent arising as incompatible with intrinsic nature.

• PudgalavādaCompared with: Its account of conventional persons does not posit the Pudgalavādin’s distinctive pudgala.

• AnekantavadaCompared with: Madhyamaka's analysis of emptiness differs from Jain claims about substances and their many aspects.

• MūlamadhyamakakārikāNarrower topic: The text is the foundational work of this philosophical tradition.

• SvabhāvaBroader topic: Madhyamaka makes the critique of svabhāva its central philosophical task.

• ŚāntarakṣitaRelated: Śāntarakṣita used Madhyamaka analysis to establish the ultimate emptiness of phenomena.

• HuayanRelated: Huayan developed its account of interdependence in conversation with Madhyamaka philosophy.

• WonhyoRelated: Its account of emptiness represents a major doctrinal perspective that Wonhyo sought to reconcile with others.

• Xiong ShiliCompared with: Xiong rejects an interpretation of emptiness that, in his view, cannot affirm the creative reality of the world.

• Je TsongkhapaNarrower topic: Its account of emptiness underpins Tsongkhapa’s philosophical works.

• SvasaṃvedanaRelated: Mādhyamaka philosophers, including Candrakīrti, reject svasaṃvedana as ultimately established.

• 1st Dalai LamaRelated: Madhyamaka was central to the scholastic curriculum cultivated in Gendun Drup’s Gelug milieu.

• East Asian YogācāraCompared with: Its critique of intrinsic nature supplied a rival framework for interpreting Yogācāra claims.

• TathātāNarrower topic: Madhyamaka uses reasoning about emptiness to articulate the nature named by tathātā.