GK
INDIAN HISTORY
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Like Einstein he had a rare insight into the nature of the universe.
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He was one of the greatest physicists of all time.
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He propounded the theory of Shunyavada similar to Einstein’s theory of Relativity.
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He was a great dialectician.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Nagarjuna is named “Einstein of India” because, similar to Einstein’s theory of relativity, he promoted the theory of Sunyavada. He taught the theory of relativity and claimed that only because of a long dimension relative to it, shortness is possible.
Detailed explanation-2: -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.
Detailed explanation-3: -Sunyata. Nāgārjuna’s major thematic focus is the concept of śūnyatā (translated into English as “emptiness") which brings together other key Buddhist doctrines, particularly anātman “not-self” and pratītyasamutpāda “dependent origination", to refute the metaphysics of some of his contemporaries.
Detailed explanation-4: -He became a monk and a scholar. The most important contribution of Nagarjuna to Budhhism is the concept of śūnyatā, or “emptiness. He wrote many writings, sutras and responsible for spreading Mahayana Buddhism. He was a teacher at Nalanda University and because of his preaching he later came to known as Acharaya.