Legend of Nagarjuna and The Two Truths Doctrine.



The South Asian continent can boast of its robust religious and spiritual movement.
You might have heard of sacred domes, relics as well creatures reputed for their remarkable benevolence or dreaded malevolence and mischief. There are also tales of creatures, places and beings you can agree that are of a rarely entire mystery as well as the search for proof of a hint of their existence in reality.


Like the other mysterious mythological legends, tales of the naga existential being is one, we can only imagine in book texts of fiction. You could counter such notions from stories of claims by mystics, priests and great thinkers from the ancient and medieval times who happened have an epic encounter with these creatures. Like Jesus and the basilisk, the life of Nagarjuna and the sutras obtained from the land of the nagas is one to reckon with.


The Nāgas are of utmost prominence in Hindu, Buddhist and Jain mythology.
They typically signify intelligent serpents or dragons. These snake-like supernatural beings posses great magical power that of which they are responsible for rain, lakes, and other bodies of water. They are also mysterious that their existence is of shadowy rumours to the average believer. However, an encounter with this mythical beast was an endowment based on the fact that the nagas possessed great knowledge and wisdom. that could bring healing to humanity. In Buddhism, a naga can be a symbol of a realised arhat or wise person.


The Prajñāpāramitā sūtras, which is credited to Nagarjuna is well believed to come from the mystery land of the nagas, although, account of these sutras and where they were obtained may vary since the scriptures in question has remained hidden and lost for some time.


Nagarjuna is widely referencd as the founder of the Madhyamaka, a centrism, middle-way school of Buddhist philosophy and a strong defender of the Mahāyāna movement. Traditional sources claims Nāgārjuna a practioner of ayurvedic alchemy,with his notable attempt of making rocks turn to gold and the elixir of invisibility.


The two truths doctrine was established by Nagarjuna, which claims that there are two levels of truth in Buddhist teaching, the paramārtha satya or ultimate truth and the saṃvṛtisatya conventional or superficial truth. The ultimate truth to him is the truth  of empty essence of everything, this includes emptiness itself. In other words it is argued that to Nagarjuna, "the ultimate truth is that there is no ultimate truth and that there are only conventional truths.
Aside from this doctrine, he also taught on the idea of causality and relativity.


Throughout his life, Nāgārjuna arrived at his positions from a desire to achieve a consistent exegesis of Buddha's doctrine according to the āgamas recordings. In the eyes of Nāgārjuna, Buddha was not just a forerunner, but the very founder of the Madhyamaka system.

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