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"""Will be...enormously beneficial.""--Guy Newland, Central Michigan University ""A significant contribution....Garfield's translation has much to recommend it....He has succeeded admirably in producing a commentary on N=ag=arjuna's major work that is at once relevant to contemporary philosophy and yet chiefly informed by traditional Indo-Tibetan readings....This is a remarkably lucid and philosophically serious reading of an important Buddhist text, and one that...is strikingly free of Buddhological jargon. Not only is Garfield to be thanked for this, but his work is, in this regard, one that more traditionally trained scholars of Buddhism would do well to emulate.""--Philosophy East & West ""Wonderful finally to have this text translated from the Tibetan tradition.""--Professor Judith Simmer-Brown, Naropa Institute ""An excellent translation and commentary on the main text in Mahayana Buddhist philosophy. This is superior in may ways to previous translations and can be used effectively in the classroom.""--Professor Steven Heine, Pennsylvania State University ""The first Tibetan-to-English translation of eminent second-century Buddhist Nagarjuna's greatest work: Mulamadhyamikarika....Profoundly logical....Garfield's text successfully appeals to scholars and is recommended for academic rather than public libraries.""--Library Journal ""Excellent. Clear translation and discussion.""--Tim Triplett, University of New Hampshire"

Garfield's work is a major contribution that will be of benefit to students and scholars of philosophy interested in Buddhist thought. * Transcendent Philosophy *

Will be...enormously beneficial. --Guy Newland, Central Michigan University A significant contribution....Garfield's translation has much to recommend it....He has succeeded admirably in producing a commentary on N=ag=arjuna's major work that is at once relevant to contemporary philosophy and yet chiefly informed by traditional Indo-Tibetan readings....This is a remarkably lucid and philosophically serious reading of an important Buddhist text, and one that...is strikingly free of Buddhological jargon. Not only is Garfield to be thanked for this, but his work is, in this regard, one that more traditionally trained scholars of Buddhism would do well to emulate. --Philosophy East & West Wonderful finally to have this text translated from the Tibetan tradition. --Professor Judith Simmer-Brown, Naropa Institute An excellent translation and commentary on the main text in Mahayana Buddhist philosophy. This is superior in may ways to previous translations and can be used effectively in the classroom. --Professor Steven Heine, Pennsylvania State University The first Tibetan-to-English translation of eminent second-century Buddhist Nagarjuna's greatest work: Mulamadhyamikarika....Profoundly logical....Garfield's text successfully appeals to scholars and is recommended for academic rather than public libraries. --Library Journal Excellent. Clear translation and discussion. --Tim Triplett, University of New Hampshire

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Jay L. Garfield is Professor of Philosophy at Smith College and Director of the Hampshire in India Program (an exchange program with the Tibetan universities in exile) at Hampshire College. He is the author of Belief in Psychology, Cognitive Science: An Introduction, and Western Idealism and Its Critics: A Textbook For Use in Tibetan Monastic Universities.

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