Jay L. Garfield is Doris Silbert Professor in the Humanities and
Professor of Philosophy at Smith College and Director of the Five
Colleges Tibetan Studies in India Program, and also teaches at the
Universities of Massachusetts and Melbourne and the Central
Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies in India. He is the author of
The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way (OUP 1995), which is the
standard English translation of N=ag=arjuna's
M=ulamadhyamakak=arik=a, and Empty Words: Buddhist Philosophy and
Cross-Cultural Interpretation (OUP 2002). Geshe Ngawang Samten is
Director and Vice Chancellor, as well as Professor of Indian
Buddhist Philosophy, of the Central Institute
of Higher Tibetan Studies in India. He is the editor of the
standard critical Tibetan edition of N=ag=arjuna's ratnavali (CIHTS
Press 1991).
..accuracy cannot be achieved without elegance, and the translators' awareness of this fact is evident throughout. TLS Geshe Ngawang Samten and Jay Garfield have succeeded in making available an invaluable resource for the study of Nagarjuna's Root Verses of the Middle Way and the subsequent development of his philosophy by South Asian and Tibetan thinkers. Felix Holmgren, TLS
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