HISTORY
MISCELLENOUS QUESTIONS
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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: -He propounded the theory of Shunyavada similar to Einstein’s theory of Relativity :-Nagarjuna propounded the theory of Shunyavada similar to Einstein’s theory of Relativity thus this option is correct. He was a great dialectician :-Nagarjuna was a great philosopher not a dialectician thus this option is wrong.
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: -In a memoir, Nobel Laureate Subrahmanyam Chandrasekhar wrote that the first ever recorded translation of Einstein’s Relativity papers was out of India by Saha and Bose, in 1919 and before Einstein’s theory was experimentally confirmed.
Detailed explanation-4: -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.