Work Classification Layer
Compare Works
Pick two or more works to set their attribute fingerprints, dimension-by-dimension passages, and shared school embodiments side by side. Especially useful for author-stage comparisons (Wittgenstein early vs late) and for setting a single tradition's foundational texts against each other.
Śūnyatāsaptati
Nāgārjuna's "Seventy Verses on Emptiness" — concise emptiness exposition
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | Śūnyatāsaptati (Mid) |
|---|---|
| Time · Extent | Infinite |
| Time · Ontological Status | Relational |
| Time · Grain | Continuous |
| Time · Freedom | Non-Deterministic |
| Time · Traversability | Linear |
| Time · Dimensionality | One |
| Time · Direction | Uni-directional |
| Space · Extent | Infinite |
| Space · Ontological Status | Relational |
| Space · Curvature | Flat |
| Space · Dimensionality | Three |
| Space · Locality | Local |
| Matter · Extent | Infinite |
| Matter · Ontological Status | Relational |
| Matter · Conservation | Variable |
| Matter · Dimensionality | Three |
| Matter · Locality | Local |
| Observer · Time Instance | Single |
| Observer · Space Instance | Single |
| Observer · Knowledge Extent | Partial |
| Observer · Knowledge Retainment | Total |
| Observer · Physicality | Embodied |
| Observer · Agency | Active |
| Observer · Number | Plural |
| Observer · Metaphysical Agency | Impersonal |
| Observer · Moral Authority | Reason |
| Observer · Theological Method | — |
| Energy · Extent | Infinite |
| Energy · Ontological Status | Relational |
| Energy · Conservation | Variable |
| Energy · Dispersibility | Reversible |
| Information · Ontological Status | Relational |
| Information · Cosmic Conservation | Variable |
| Information · Personal Conservation | Conserved |
| Information · Granularity | Discrete |
Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence
What each work's passages reveal about its stance on each of the six dimensions.
Time
Śūnyatāsaptati
Composed c. 150-250 AD; mid-second to third century South Indian-Andhra Madhyamaka context.
Space
Śūnyatāsaptati
South Indian Andhra-region composition; transmitted to Tibet via Indo-Tibetan translation projects 8th-11th c.; subsequent Tibetan canon transmission.
Matter
Śūnyatāsaptati
Emptiness, dependent-origination, the conventional and ultimate truths, the Abhidharma svabhāva-realist position, the avoidance of nihilism.
Observer
Śūnyatāsaptati
Nāgārjuna as foundational Madhyamaka philosopher; the second-century pivot from early-Mahāyāna Prajñāpāramitā sūtra-literature to systematic Madhyamaka philosophy.
Energy
Śūnyatāsaptati
Dialectical-philosophical, anti-substantialist, deconstructive-yet-conventionally-affirming energies.
Information
Śūnyatāsaptati
73 verses (saptati = seventy); compressed kārikā-style philosophical Sanskrit, with auto-commentary and Candrakīrti-commentary; companion text to Mūlamadhyamakakārikā.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
Śūnyatāsaptati is a companion text to the Mūlamadhyamakakārikā and is part of the canonical Nāgārjuna 'Yukti-Corpus' that modern academic Madhyamaka scholarship treats as authentic. Tibetan commentarial tradition treats the text as central; modern Anglophone Madhyamaka scholarship (Lindtner, Ruegg, Westerhoff, Garfield, Siderits) has been retrieving the text alongside the Mūlamadhyamakakārikā as essential for understanding Nāgārjuna's full philosophical position.