Candrakirti

Candrakirti was one of the greatest commentators of the 'Stanzas of the Middle Way' by Nagarjuna (Third Cent. A.D.?).  In the first chapter of the Prasannapada, he briefly lays out the plan of he work and begins his determined polemic against the deviationist, whom he judges to be an unfaithful Madhyamika.  In this study, which focuses on the beginning of the Prasannapada ("The Clear Words") by Candrakirti, the author makes an accurate analysis of the Madhyamika dialectic.