This study of the Twenty Verses on the Great Vehicle and the Verses on the Heart of Dependent Origination provides readable translations of the texts, followed by text-critical material, edited Tibetan, and wide-ranging commentary. Detailed editions of and comments upon eighth- or ninth-century A.D. Dunhuang manuscripts of the Heart of Dependent Origination are included. Anyone interested in the second-century Buddhist philosopher Ngrjuna will be interested in this book.

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The Author: R. C. Jamieson is Keeper of Sanskrit Manuscripts at the University of Cambridge, a member of the Faculty of Oriental Studies, and a member of King's College. Before Cambridge he taught Buddhism in the Study of Religion Department at the University of Leicester. His postgraduate studies were with David Snellgrove at the University of London. Dr. Jamieson's illustrated book on two early illustrated Sanskrit manuscripts, The Perfection of Wisdom (with a preface by the Dalai Lama), is forthcoming.