Nagarjuna · Theology

Dependent Origination

Nagarjuna’s identification of emptiness with dependent arising - the insight that to exist is to arise in dependence on conditions, never on one’s own.

What you'll be able to recall

You learned that for Nagarjuna, to be empty and to be dependently arisen are the same thing. Explain why, and what this rules out, in your own words.

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