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I'd be pleased if you could announce the publication of this new book. I think many subscribers to H-Buddhism will be interested. Thanks, Andy Andy Rotman Religion Department Smith College Pierce Hall 203 Northampton, MA 01063 email: arotman@smith.edu website: http://www.smith.edu/religion/faculty_rotman.php ----- Nāgārjuna’s Middle Way: Mūlamadhyamakakārikā by Mark Siderits and Shōryū Katsura Classics of Indian Buddhism Series, vol. 2 Boston, MA: Wisdom Publications 368 pages (paperback) | $28.95 9781614290506 | eBook 9781614290612 The volume contains a new translation of all twenty-seven chapters of Nāgārjuna's Mūlamadhyamakakārikā, from the La Vallée Poussin Sanskrit edition, with reference to Ye’s more recent edition where it differs significantly from the former. The Sanskrit verses are provided in Roman characters alongside their English translation for ease of reference. The translators have provided a running commentary to the translated verses of MMK based on the four classical Indian commentaries: the Akutobhayā (author unknown), the Madhyamakavṛtti by Buddhapālita, the Prajñāpradīpa by Bhāviveka, and the Prasannapadā by Candrakīrti. A brief, ten page introduction outlines Nāgārjuna’s goals and strategies in the work, and includes a précis of Abhidharma philosophical presuppositions and of the patterns of reasoning employed within the MMK. Professors Siderits and Katsura open each of the twenty-seven chapters with a short paragraph in which chapter themes are introduced, followed by a list that thematically summarizes the verses of the chapter and clearly identifies their roles as assertions, objections from opponents, refutations, reasons, summaries, etc. Bracketed terms are kept to a minimum throughout the work and footnotes have been avoided altogether, which allows for uncluttered reading of the text, focused solely on the Madhyamaka philosophy of Nāgārjuna and his Indian commentators. As a special offer to members of the H-Buddhism list, Nāgārjuna’s Middle Way: Mūlamadhyamakakārikā will be directly available from Wisdom Publications at 25% off the cover price through August 31, 2013 with the use of the coupon code HNET13. http://www.wisdompubs.org/Pages/display.lasso?-KeyValue=33189&-Token.Action=&image=1 Praise for Nāgārjuna’s Middle Way “At last! At last we have a translation of the Madhyamakakārikās that can be enthusiastically recommended to students! This translation is sensitive to text-critical issues, felicitous, academically rigorous, and it incorporates a useful introduction with an admirable and philosophically sensitive summary of Nāgārjuna’s intellectual background and method. This translation has the authentic flavour of Nāgārjuna. It should certainly become the first translation of choice for all English language work on the Madhyamakakārikās in the foreseeable future.” —Paul Williams, Emeritus Professor of Indian and Tibetan Philosophy, University of Bristol, author of Buddhist Thought: A Complete Introduction to the Indian Tradition “Siderits and Katsura have produced a masterful translation that is both philologically precise and philosophically sophisticated and sets extremely high standards for further work on the Mūlamadhyamakārikā. Based on the four extant Indian commentaries their explanations of Nāgārjuna’s concise verses are a paragon of conceptual clarity. Every student of Buddhist philosophy will want to own a copy of this book.” —Jan Westerhoff, Oxford University, author of Nāgārjuna’s Madhyamaka: A Philosophical Introduction “Mark Siderits and Shōryū Katsura’s Nāgārjuna’s Middle Way will justly be received as the go-to translation of one of the most important works of the Indian Buddhist philosophical tradition. The authors have achieved something remarkable—a rendering of Nāgārjuna’s foundational text that is clear and concise, but that nevertheless lets us see how Nāgārjuna can have been so variously read by interpreters both traditional and modern.” —Dan Arnold, University of Chicago Divinity School, author of Buddhists, Brahmins, and Belief: Epistemology in South Asian Philosophy of Religion “This new translation by Shōryū Katsura and Mark Siderits is accurate, faithful to the Indian interpreters, and clear. These two scholars have rendered the Madhyamakakārikās with an exemplary combination of philological and philosophical rigor, making this the translation of choice for Nāgārjuna’s seminal verses.” —Tom Tillemans, Professor Emeritus, University of Lausanne “Katsura and Siderits’ translation and commentary renders the work accessible in an outstanding fashion. The scholarship is of the very highest quality. The translation is authoritative, and the commentary, drawing on the texts of the most notable Indian commentators, provides a picture of Nāgārjuna’s thought that is vivid and illuminating.” —Graham Priest, author of Logic: A Very Short Introduction --------------------------- H-Buddhism (Buddhist Scholars Information Network) Web Site: <http://www.h-net.org/~buddhism/> Posting Guidelines: <http://www.h-net.org/~buddhism/posting_guidelines.html> Handling Your Account: <http://h-net.msu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=h-buddhism> --
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