Shantarakshita's "The Ornament of the Middle Way" is among the most important Mahayana Buddhist philosophical treatises to emerge on the Indian subcontinent. In many respects, it represents the culmination of more than 1300 years of philosophical dialogue and inquiry since the time of the historical Buddha Shakyamuni. Shantarakshita set forth the foundation of a syncretic approach to contemporary ideas by synthesizing the three major trends in Indian Buddhist thought at the time (the Madhyamaka thought of Nagarjuna, the Yogachara thought of Asanga, and the logical and epistemological thought...
Shantarakshita's "The Ornament of the Middle Way" is among the most important Mahayana Buddhist philosophical treatises to emerge on the Indian subcon...
