A Study of Nagarjuna's Twenty Verses on the Great Vehicle (Mahayanavimsika) and His Verses on the Heart of Dependent Origination

What a daunting title! It would not be surprising if the average reader were immediately frightened away. The trick, though, is to start slowly, and let Jamieson draw you in with his extraordinarily illuminating background material. If you approach it that way, I would be very much surprised if you don't quickly find yourself swept up in the profundity of Nagarjuna's thought.

If you know nothing about Nagarjuna, he was a second century Buddhist monk and philosopher who founded what came to be known as the "Middle Path." His ideas about the origin of existence and the nature of reality were so sublime that, to this day, he remains a revered figure in several schools of Buddhist thought.

Give this book a try. It can be hard going at times, but then, nothing worthwhile is ever really easy, is it? Jamieson has done a superb job with very difficult material, and anyone with any real interest in Buddhist thought owes it to himself or herself to have a look at this deeply fascinating work.