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The 24 pages that link to Nagarjuna, each with the reason it gives.

• MahayanaRelated: His influential arguments shaped Mahayana interpretations of emptiness.

• MadhyamakaBroader topic: His writings established the tradition's central analysis of emptiness and dependent origination.

• Dependent originationRelated: He argued that dependent origination entails the emptiness of phenomena.

• AnattāRelated: His analysis of emptiness extends critiques of inherent existence without simply equating emptiness with a self.

• BodhicittaRelated: Mahayana accounts link the bodhisattva aspiration to his teachings on emptiness.

• Buddhist philosophyBroader topic: His arguments against intrinsic nature became landmarks in Buddhist philosophy.

• ŚūnyatāRelated: His arguments made dependent arising and emptiness central to Madhyamaka philosophy.

• Two truths doctrineRelated: His writings connect emptiness, dependent origination, and conventional designation.

• EmptinessRelated: His arguments connect dependent origination directly with emptiness.

• NaropaCompared with: Nāgārjuna exemplifies philosophical authority, unlike Naropa’s chiefly tantric lineage reputation.

• UpayaRelated: Madhyamaka’s account of conventional and ultimate truth helps frame provisional teachings.

• Indian philosophyRelated: His arguments about emptiness became a landmark in Buddhist and inter-school debate.

• Sanskrit Buddhist literatureRelated: His Sanskrit works helped establish a major philosophical strand within the literature.

• Bodhisattva vowRelated: His writings connect bodhisattva practice with the wisdom of emptiness.

• PratītyasamutpādaRelated: He made dependent arising central to Madhyamaka arguments about emptiness.

• MūlamadhyamakakārikāRelated: He composed the verses that establish the text’s central arguments.

• GaudapadaCompared with: Comparing his critique of origination with Gaudapada’s reveals both shared arguments and different metaphysical commitments.

• SvabhāvaRelated: His arguments examine whether things can arise, change, or function if they possess svabhāva.

• DharmakāyaRelated: His philosophy influenced readings of Dharmakāya as inseparable from emptiness.

• HuayanRelated: Madhyamaka ideas about emptiness form part of the philosophical background Huayan reinterpreted.

• Kumārila BhaṭṭaCompared with: His critique of fixed views exemplifies Buddhist challenges to the realist commitments Kumārila defended.

• AśvaghoṣaRelated: Both are major early Buddhist intellectuals, though their dates and any direct connection remain disputed.

• ZhiyiRelated: Zhiyi drew on Madhyamaka ideas when explaining emptiness and the middle way.

• TathātāRelated: His analysis of emptiness shaped later accounts of reality beyond conceptual extremes.