Prasannapadā

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Chandrakirti

Prasannapadā (T. tshig gsal ཚིག་གསལ་; C. 淨明句論; Enlish: Clear Words) is a word-by-word commentary on Nagarjuna's Mulamadhyamaka-karika by the Indian scholar Chandrakirti.

Tibetan text

• དབུ་མ་རྩ་བའི་འགྲེལ་པ་ཚིག་གསལ་བ་, dbu ma rtsa ba'i 'grel pa tshig gsal ba
• Sakya Library
• TibetanWorks

Quotations

Since only emptiness has the character of stopping all elaborations, it is called Nirvana.

Sources

• Dalai Lama; Thubten Chodron (2018b), Saṃsāra, Nirvāṇa, and Buddha Nature, The Library of Wisdom and Compassion, Volume 3, Wisdom Publications 

Further reading

• Mervyn Sprung, Lucid Exposition of the Middle Way: the Essential Chapters from the Prasannapadā of Candrakīrti, Routledge, 1979
• Clear Words, Rigpa Shedra Wiki