緣起性空=Dependent Origination and the Emptiness of Nature; 涅槃=Nirvāna; 般若=Sanskritprajñā; 生死與涅槃不二=No precise parallel to distinction of Secular world andNibbāna-dhāta; 無住涅槃=apratisthita; 如來法身=dhamakāya
Nirvāna, as the final status of relief, is the most important and fundamental concept in Buddhism philosophy. In this paper we will discuss the concept of Nirvana in Mādhyamika. The Mādhyamika's main idea is Dependent Origination and the Emptiness of Nature. Na^ga^rjuna insisted that nervikalpanaing the Emptiness of Nature could lead to Nirvāza, and made us attain the nibbāna-dhāta. In his point of view, there is no precise parallel to distinction of the nibbāna-dhāta and the Secular world. In Mādhyamika, dhamakāya is regard as the approach to the nibbāna-dhāta.From the practices of the bodhisattva (bodhisattva-carya^), Na^ga^rjuna brought forward that the Sanskrit bodhisattva did not stick to the nibbāna-dhāta and the transmigration, which is called the apratisthita. From the standpoint of the Hinayana,the concept of Nirvāna means to exterminate the transmigration of soul, and cease the life thoroughly. But Na^ga^rjuna didn’t agree with this point. He insisted that the tathatām or the voidness (shanyata) was the spiritual body of Buddha (dhamakāya). So the concept of Nirvāna in Mādhyamika means unite of the spiritual body and the individual, which is the exclusively purificatory life without any desire, anger andignorance.
