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The opening verse denies the four possible ways of viewing the cause of suffering; that is, self-caused, other-caused, both self-caused and other-caused, and non-caused. The term other (
t’a) here and in the rest of the chapter means anything other than itself or oneself. It may refer to a person or persons as well as a thing or things. In what follows, Nāgārjuna uses the logic of reductio ad absurdum to show the absurdity and untenability of each causal view. In doing this, he repudiates the concept of God as the creator and savior.
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Cheng, Hl. (1982). The Creator. In: Nāgārjuna’s Twelve Gate Treatise. Studies of Classical India, vol 5. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-7775-4_13
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