Buddhapalita (English spelling)

Japanese: ブッダパーリタ（英語表記）Buddhapālita

A Mahayana Madhyamaka scholar from India, who lived from 470 to 540. Transliterated as Butsugo. Born in southern India, he studied Nagarjuna's teachings under Sangharakshita together with Seiben, emphasizing the idea of emptiness. Seiben, in opposition to the Yogacara school, a Mahayana school of Buddhism alongside the Madhyamaka school, advocated a position of establishing his own school's claims (subatantra) in opposition to his teacher's teachings. Butsugo, along with his teacher, defended Nagarjuna's prasangha method (a method of abductive argument that points out contradictions in the other person's logic and forces them to admit their mistakes), and wrote the Madhyamaka-karika.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

470‐540年ころのインドの大乗中観（ちゆうがん）派の学者。仏護と音訳される。南インドに生まれ，清弁（しようべん）とともにサンガラクシタ(衆護)に就いて竜樹の教説を学び，空の思想を強調した。清弁が中観派と並ぶ大乗仏教学派である唯識学派との対抗上，師説に反して自派の主張を確立する立場(スバタントラ)を主張したのに対し，仏護は師とともに竜樹のプラサンガ論法(相手の論理の矛盾をつき，過誤を認めさせる帰謬論証法)を守って，《中論注》を著した。

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