Treatise on the Middle Way

定义

佛教经典，是中观派基本理论著作。把初期佛教的基本理论业感缘起论解释为“缘起性空”、中观无自性，从而把《般若经》所讲的“空”提高到理论的高度。

A Buddhist classic concerning the basic theory of the Middle Way School, which interprets the Pratitya Samutpada (dependent origination), basic theory of early Buddhism, as “All phenomena arise from emptiness.” and they have no self-substance and are empty of a permanent self, and the Madhyamika of no self-nature, so as to theorize the concept of “Emptiness”in Mahaprajna Paramita Sutra.