Nagarjuna, the Author

His Holiness will give teachings on the basis of a text written by Nagarjuna, a well-known Indian pundit who lived at the end of the 1^st century AC.

Nagarjuna was born in Beda, in southern India. Still very young, he entered the famous monastic university of Nalanda, where he rapidly gained a complete knowledge of all Buddhist scriptures - both Sutra and Tantra - and later on he became the abbot.

The appearance of Nagarjuna had been prophesised by Buddha himself and it was marked by many episodes of great symbolic and mystical meaning.

His figure is of the greatest importance because he clarified and thoroughly explained the essential meaning of Buddha's teachings, illustrating in particular the relationship between interdipendence and emptiness. Indeed, he is the founder of the Madhyamika school, which is considered by many the most subtle interpretation of Buddha's explanations of the ultimate reality of phenomena. Nagarjuna wrote many treaties, the most well-known of which is "The root of Wisdom" (Tza.Ua Sce.Rab), which contain the explanations both of the vast and the profound path and also special teachings on Tantra.