GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

GK

INDIAN CULTURE

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Who among the following taught the doctrine of ‘Shunyata’?
A
Harisena
B
Shankaracharya
C
Vallabhacharya
D
Nagarjuna
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Nagarjuna was a friend and contemporary of Satavahana king Yajnasri Gautamiputra of Andhra. He propounded the Madhyamika school of Buddhist philosophy popularly known as Sunyavada. Was this answer helpful?

Detailed explanation-2: -Nagarjuna’s central concept of the “emptiness (sunyata) of all things (dharmas), ‘’ which pointed to the incessantly changing and so never fixed nature of all phenomena, served as much as the terminological prop of subsequent Buddhist philosophical thinking as the vexation of opposed Vedic systems.

Detailed explanation-3: -Nagarjuna employs the doctrine of the two truths, paramartha satya (“ultimate truth”) and samvriti satya (“conventional truth”), explaining that everything that exists is ultimately empty of any intrinsic nature but does exist conventionally.

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