Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Chandrakirti (born approx. 600 C.E.) was abbot of Nalanda University and a disciple of Nagarjuna and a commentator on his works. He was a philosopher who defended the Madhyamika view that all objects are merely temporary phenomena created by circumstances, defending it against that of the Svatantrikas who held that objects are in some sense objectively real. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.