중론에 나타난 용수의 열반관에 대한 고찰

Abstract

The recognition of the Nāgārjuna’s nirvāṇa does not to recognize the essential śūnyatā which deny the saṁsāra of the birth-death, but insight to the essential śūnyatā in the recognition of the saṁsāra. In this meaning, the recognition of the Nāgārjuna’s nirvāṇa is the saṁsāra of the birth-death, but it has a thorough practicality of the śūnyatā as a pratītyasamutpāda. The relation between the saṁsāra and the nirvāṇa in the Nāgārjuna’s thought is a co-relation of the thorough negation and affirmation. In this point, Nāgārjuna’s thought consists in the middle position which is not a being or not a nothing. Accordingly, it also means which is not insist on an individual particular opinion. Also it means to confirm all opinions as it is. So Nāgārjuna refutes the Sarvāstivādin’s a substantial thought of the nirvāṇa, and then he re-interprets the world of the nirvāṇa on the pratītyasamutpāda-niḥsvabhāva-śūnyatā. He will establishes to practice the ultimate goal of the nirvāṇa in the mundane world. It is a view of Nāgārjuna’s the nirvāṇa on tmadhyamāpratipad in the Madhyamaka-Kārikā.