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Acharya Nagarjuna University, Guntur
Acharya Nagarjuna, the profounder of the Madhyamika Buddhism
is one of the greatest philosophers India has ever produced. The Buddhists of
China, Japan and Tibet river him to be the Second Buddha, who once again set in
the motion the wheel of Dharma. He endowed with metaphysical profundity and
logical acumen has reaffirmed the basic ideas of Buddhism, apart from providing
reinterpretation, clarification and amplification of new concepts of Buddhism.
HISTORY ABOUT ACHARYA NAGARJUNA
Acharya Nagarjuna, the profounder of the Madhyamika Buddhism
is one of the greatest philosophers India has ever produced. The Buddhists of China, Japan and Tibet river
him to be the Second Buddha, who once again set in the motion the wheel of
Dharma. He endowed with metaphysical
profundity and logical acumen has reaffirmed the basic ideas of Buddhism, apart
from providing reinterpretation, clarification and amplification of new
concepts of Buddhism. He focused on the fundamental problems of human
existence, human aspiration and human actions.
He found solutions to them through intuition and reflective
thought. He applied and practiced these
solutions and his doctrine and experience become a norm to motivate rational
and sensitive minds of different generation in different countries with varied
cultural environment. Hanayama Shinsho recognizing Nagarjuna's contribution has
opined that ‘he may well be called the progenitor of Mahayana thought'.
The Madhyamika-karika testifies to the historicity to their
author Nagarjuna, the great Buddhist philosopher, who extolled the path of
Prajnaparamita. He wrote the Karika in
order to expound the basic teaching of the Prajnaparamita-sutras. The recent archaeological discoveries at
Amaravati corroborate to certain extent the broad facts about Nagarjuna's life
on which his traditional biographies agree.
He was born in a Brahmin family in Andhradesa at Vedali.
Based on the Chinese author Tao-an (A.D.568) and Kumarjivas' account and
his date for Buddha' nirvana and other material of a Japanese Scholar Hakaju
concluded that Nagarjuna lived about 113-213 A.D. The fact being his friendship with a
Satavahana King Gautamiputra Satakarni (130-150 A.D.) and his having spent the
latter part of his career in the monastery built for him by this king at
Bhramaragiri (Sriparvata). The
Manjuasrimulakalpa and Tibetan sources contend that Nagarjuna had the Amaravati
stupa renovated, enclosed and ornamented with the assistance of this King. Dhanyakataka and Sriparvata were the Centers
of his activity. Rajatarangini of 11 th
century treats him as a contemporary of Kanishka.
Vision
- To generate sources of knowledge that dispel ignorance and establish truth in everything.
- -SATYE SARVAM PRATISHTITAM
Mission
- To promote a bank of human talent in diversified faculties like Arts, Commerce, Law, Education, Engineering, Humanities, Natural Sciences, Physical Sciences and Social Sciences that would become an investment for a prosperous society.
Objectives
- To inspire and encourage all who would seek knowledge through higher education and research.
- To provide quality instruction and research for the advancement of science and technology.
- To promote teaching and research studies in disciplines of societal relevance
- To bridge the gap between theory and practice of the principles of higher education.
- To develop human talent necessary for the industry.
- To open up avenues of higher education and research through non-formal means.
- To invite and implement collaborations with other institutes of higher learning on a continuous basis for mutual academic progress.
- To motivate and orient each academic department/centre to strive for and to sustain advanced levels of teaching and research so that the university emerges as an ideal institute of higher learning.
- To focus specially on the studies involving rural economy, justifying its existence in the rural setting.
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