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The Nāga-Born
The Second Buddha: A Life of Nāgārjuna · Volume 1

The Nāga-Born

The Dragon Prince Who Carried the Dharma
89 pagesEbook · 6×9 paperback

The Buddha Spoke His Name Before He Was Born. What if the most important philosopher in Buddhist history was never meant to be a philosopher at all, but a bodhisattva, a serpent-king's guest, a keeper of scriptures the world was not yet ready to hold?

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The Nāga-Born restores Nāgārjuna to his full, luminous strangeness, not as a footnote in Madhyamaka theory, but as a living presence walking the razor's edge between brilliance and destruction, between this world and the ones coiled beneath it. This is the story dharma students have been waiting for: the man behind the Mūlamadhyamakakārikā , told as sacred biography, as namthar, where philosophy is inseparable from fever dreams, initiation, and the mercy of great serpent-kings. If you have ever chanted Nāgārjuna's name in a lineage prayer and wondered who you were really invoking, this book answers that question with devotion, with drama, and with the full force of Mahāyāna imagination.

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