This study focuses on Nagarjuna's examination of time in the Mula-madhyamaka-karikav by analyzing the questions, themes and logical reasoning therein, and then proceeds to inquire into a Buddhist philosophy of time. Throughout the "Chapter on the Examination of Time" of the Mula-madhyamaka-karika, Nagarjuna emphasizes that the concept of time cannot exist objectively in the word independently of related concepts. the related constructs along the linear time dimension, such as past, present, and future, are devoid of own-being and therefore empty. The past, present, and future exist relative to one other, not independent of one other. In this way they are like illusions and do not exist as real entities. The substantialist view of time can hardly stand scrutiny in the view of the manufacture of conceptual constructs. Therefore, the elimination of false views is the first step both to building a robust philosophical theory of time and to achieving wisdom in life.
