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[[Image:Nagarjuna17.JPG|frame|'''Nagarjuna''']]
'''Collection of Middle Way Reasoning''' (Skt. ''yuktikāya''; Tib. དབུ་མ་རིགས་ཚོགས་, ''uma rik tsok'', [[Wyl.]] ''dbu ma rigs tshogs'') — one of the main categories of [[Nagarjuna]]'s writings. Some say that there are five texts in the collection, while others say six, but there is no consensus on the identity of the sixth text.

===The Five Texts===
[[Khenpo Tsöndrü]] says:

1) the main body-like treatise, the '''[[Mulamadhyamaka-karika|Root Verses of the Middle Way on Wisdom]]''' (Mulamadhyamaka-karika) that refutes groups from this (Buddhist) and other traditions.

Then there are the two subsidiary treatises derived from this:

2) The '''[[Refutation of Objections]]''', which is an expansion of the first section of the Fundamental Verses on ‘Examining Conditions’; and

3) The '''[[Seventy Stanzas on Emptiness]]''', which is an expansion of the seventh section of the Fundamental Verses on ‘Examining Arising, Dwelling and Ceasing’.

Then there are:

4) '''[[Sixty Stanzas on Reasoning]]''', which is a refutation of some within our own (Buddhist) tradition in particular; and

5) '''Crushing to Fine Powder''', which is a refutation of the establishing logic known as the ‘sixteen words and meanings of the logicians.’

Thus there are five texts in the collection altogether.

===The Sixth Text===
Some scholars such as [[Butön Rinchen Drup]] (1290-1364) and [[Longchenpa]] added ''Conventional Existence'' to the other five, and some more recent scholars have added ''[[Precious Garland]]'' (''Ratnavali''), but this is usually included among the Collection of Advice.

==Alternative Translations==
*Scholastic corpus (Seyfort Ruegg)

==Internal Links==
===Other Collections===
*[[Collection of Advice]]
*[[Collection of Praises]]

==External Links==
*{{LH|tibetan-masters/khenpo-namdrol-tsering/madhyamakavatara-1|Khenpo Namdrol on the ''Collection of Reasoning''}}
*{{LH|topics/prajnaparamita/prajnaparamita-preliminaries|Khenpo Tsöndrü on the ''Collection of Reasoning''}}

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