Madhyamika

(Sanskrit: �Intermediate�), important school in the Mahayana (�Great Vehicle�) Buddhist tradition. Its name derives from its having sought a middle position between the realism of the Sarvastivada (�Doctrine That All Is Real�) school and the idealism of the Yogacara (�Mind Only�) school. The most renowned Madhyamika thinker was Nagarjuna (2nd century AD), who developed the doctrine that all