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棿庽 [py] Long2shu4 [wg] Long-shu [ko] Yongsu [ja] 儕儏僂僕儏 Ryuuju ||| Naagaarjuna (150-250), an eminent Buddhist logician who was instrumental in the early establishment of Indian Mahaayaana. He was born in southern India, and was initially a scholar of brahmanistic texts, but later converted to Buddhism. He first studied the various Nikaaya doctrines along with early Mahaayaana. He would end up leaning toward the latter, conducting extensive study on the various sutras. Based on his extensive study and ardent meditation practice he composed a number of influential texts, most important of which was the Maadhyamaka-kaarikaa 拞榑 (Memorial Verses on the Middle Way), which contains the essentials of his thought in twenty-seven short chapters. He is also considered to be the author of the Mahaayaana-vim`ska (Twenty Verses on the Mahaayaana) and of the Dvaada`sdvaara-`saastra 廫擇栧榑 (Treatise of the Twelve Gates). His writings were the basis for the formation of the Maadhyamika (Middle Way 拞鎂攈) school, which was transmitted to China under the name of the Three Treatise (Sanlun) School 嶰榑廆. [Credit] acm(entry)

棿徾 [py] long2 xiang4 [wg] long-hsiang [ko] yongsang [ja] 儕儏僂僝僂 ryuuzou ||| A superior (in insight) monk. [Credit] acm(entry) cw(py)

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