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Early Madhyamika in India and China : by Richard H. Robinson; Motilal Banarsidass, Delhi, 1976, Price Rs.45/-.
This is the Indian reprint of the book by Dr. Robinson. He was the great scholar of early Chinese Literature and Philosophy. His main contribution in this book is that for the first time he studied the Madhyamika school in India with special reference to its development in China in proper perspective. He was not satisfied with the studies of Mādhyamika philosophy by the scholars of repute like Steherbätsky, La Vallee Poussin and Schayer. To some extant he was satisfied with the work of Dr. T. R. V. Murti, who compared the Madhyamika philosophy with that of Kant, Hegel-Bradley. Still it was necessary to know the influence of the Madhyamika philosophy in China when it was introduced by Kumārajīva between A. D. 401 and 409 and out of this influence how it was developed in China. This task is ably conducted by Dr. Robinson. First he has described the Early Indian Madhyamika and discussed the life and works of Kumārajīva who introduced the philosophy in China and then he has discussed the three main authors of China-Hui-Yuan, Seng-jui and Seng-Chao and their contribution to the Mādhyamika philosophy. At the end he has given the translation of the original Chinese language 10 documents into English so that one can study for himself the Chinese madhyamika philosophy.
No doubt this is most important contribution by Dr. Robinson and we in India should be grateful to this great scholar.
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