Madhyamikaadj.n.

1838 Jrnl. Asiatic Soc. Bengal 7 145 According to the views of some writers, there is little difference between the Yogáchárya and the Madhyámika theories.

1895 L. A. Waddell Buddhism of Tibet ii. 11 As his [sc. Nāgārjuna's] method claims to be a compromise between the extreme views then held on the nature of Nirvana, it was named the Mādhyamika, or the system ‘of the Middle path’.

1964 Listener 10 Dec. 940/3 Mahayana produced deep and subtle philosophies of its own; the most important of these was the system known as Madhyamika, founded by the Indian philosopher Nagarjuna, who perhaps taught about 100 years after Christ.

1984 C. Humphreys Pop. Dict. Buddhism (ed. 3) 18 One of the greatest minds of India, Nagarjuna..founded, or at least systematized, the Madhyamika School as a ‘Middle way’ between the prevailing views of Existence and Non-existence concerning visible and invisible phenomena.