The Prasannapada is the explanation of the versed aphorisms of Nagarjuna which are the first and basic statement of the Buddhist philosophy of the middle way. When first published, this volume was the first attempt, in any European language, to present all the essentials of this most radical of Buddhist philosophical works. Seventeen of its twenty-seven chapters have been chosen to give an integrated statement of every aspect of its arguments and conclusions.

Lucid Exposition of the Middle Way, Mervyn Sprung, RoutledgeCurzon, Hardcover, 278 pp., 1979 / 2008, $165.00

 1. Concern, Method and Assumptions of the Middle Way Philosophy

   2. Attack on the Possibility of Knowledge

   3. Enquiry into Conditions

   4. Motion and Rest

   5. Vision and the Other Sense Faculties

   6. Material Objects and the Other Factors of Personal Existence

   7. The Primal Elements or Character & Characteristic

   8. Desire and Other Afflictions

   9. The Agent Subject and His Doing

  10. Self as Subject of Perception

  11. Fire and Fuel

  12. The Absence of Being in Things

  13. Self-Existence

  14. Self and the Way Things Really Are

  15. Time

  16. The Perfectly Realized One

  17. The Basic Afflictions and the Four Misbeliefs

  18. The Four Buddhist Truths

  19. Nirvana