The Observer and the Taste of Presence · Appendix
Appendix A: The Verse Text, an Index
The chapters of this book draw on the following verses of the Mūlamadhyamakakārikā. The full translation, with the Sanskrit, appears in the companion volume. Use this index to find the passage a chapter refers to. Verse numbers follow Garfield (1995) and Siderits and Katsura (2013), which number the first verse of chapter 1 after the homage as 1.1. Editions that count the dedicatory verses number chapter 1 two verses higher.
| Verse | Subject | Chapter(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Homage | Dependent arising without arising or ceasing, without coming or going; the quieting of elaborations as peace | 12 |
| 1.1 | Refutation of arising from self, other, both, and without cause; non-arising | 12, 17 |
| 1.5 | Conditions and what arises from them. No MMK 1.5 salt-and-water passage has been found; the Chapter 8 example is the book's own illustration. | 8 |
| 2 | Motion; walker and walking designated together | 11 |
| 2.18–21 | The goer is neither identical with nor different from the going; changer and change | 11 |
| 3 | Seeing, seer and seen; no seeing by its own nature; the chain of dependence | 1, 16 |
| 5 | Space and its characteristic; the analysis of characterised and characteriser | 5 |
| 7 | The conditioned: arising, abiding and ceasing | 12 |
| 10.1 | Fire and fuel: neither one nor other | 4 |
| 13.8 | Those who take emptiness as a view are incurable | 18, 23 |
| 14 | Seer, seeing and seen; the analysis of contact and otherness | 1, 16 |
| 15.2 | Own-nature (svabhāva) is defined as non-contingent and not dependent on anything other than itself. | 4, 12 |
| 15.10–11 | Existence and non-existence of a thing standing on its own; permanence and annihilation | 4, 12 |
| 18.5 | Proliferation ceases in emptiness | 14 |
| 18.10 | Neither identical with nor different from what it depends on | 12 |
| 19 | Time; the anaesthesia and the river of time | 4, 10 |
| 24.8–10 | Conventional and ultimate truth; neither is a lower stage | 13 |
| 24.14 | For whom emptiness is possible, everything is possible (the verb yujyate: "fits") | 8 |
| 24.16–20 | Practice works because nothing is fixed | 23 |
| 24.18 | Dependent arising is emptiness; that is a designation in dependence, and the middle way | 14, 17 |
| 24.19 | No phenomenon has not arisen in dependence, so none is not empty | 14, 18 |
| 27 | Continuity without persistence; neither identical nor wholly different | 9 |