Ryuju

Japanese: 竜樹 - りゅうじゅ

An Indian Buddhist monk who lived around 150-250. He was the master of Mahayana Buddhism. His Sanskrit name was Nagarjuna. He was also known as Ryumyo or Ryusho. Nagarjuna was a Brahmin from South India. He became a monk and first studied Hinayana Buddhism, but later he was given Mahayana scriptures by an old monk in the Himalayas, and he is said to have followed Mahayana Buddhism ever since. There is also a legend that he went to the Dragon Palace in the South Seas and obtained many Mahayana scriptures. He wrote many commentaries on Mahayana scriptures, and spent his later years in Mount Kurohachi, upstream of the Krishna River in South India. He broke the Hinayana philosophy of existence, clarified the nonexistence of unchanging substance in all things (emptiness), rejected the two extremes of existence and nonexistence, and established the Madhyamaka view, becoming a theoretical pioneer of Mahayana Buddhism. Nagarjuna's lineage is called the Madhyamaka school, and is considered the founder of eight sects in China and Japan, and the third in Shingon Buddhism. His works include "Madhyamaka-stra", "The Twelve Gates Treatise", "Mahaprajnaparamita-sha", and "The Ten Stages of Vibhāsa-stra".
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Japanese:

インドの仏僧。150―250年ころの人。大乗仏教の大成者。サンスクリット名ナーガールジュナ。竜猛(りゅうみょう)，竜勝とも。南インドのバラモン出身。出家して初め小乗仏教を学んだが，のちヒマラヤ山中で老比丘(びく)より大乗経典を与えられ，以後大乗仏教を奉じたという。また南海の竜宮に至り，多くの大乗経典を得たという伝説もある。著作は大乗経典の注釈書が多く，晩年を南インド，クリシュナ川の上流の黒蜂山で過ごした。小乗仏教の有(う)の哲学を破り，万物には不変の実体のないこと（空(くう)）を明らかにし，有と無の両端を排して中観を立て，大乗仏教の理論的開拓者となった。竜樹の系統を中観派(ちゅうがんは)と呼び，中国や日本では八宗の祖，真言宗では第３祖とする。著書《中論》《十二門論》《大智度論(だいちどろん)》《十住毘婆沙(びばさ)論》など。
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