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Middle Way is the term that Siddhartha Gautama used to describe the character of the path he discovered that leads to liberation.

Middle way or Middleway may also refer to:

• Doctrine of the Mean, a doctrine of Confucianism
• Golden mean (philosophy), the desirable middle between two extremes, one of excess and the other of deficiency
• The Middle Way (book), 1938 book on political philosophy by Harold Macmillan
• The Middle Way (journal), a quarterly journal of the Buddhist Society
• Middle Way Approach, a balanced approach to Tibet existing with religious freedom inside Communist China as proposed by the 14th Dalai Lama
• Middleway, West Virginia, a populated place
• The Middleway, A4540 ring road in Birmingham, England

See also

• Midway (disambiguation)
• Sweden: The Middle Way, 1936 book by Marquis Childs
• Via media ("middle road" in Latin), which is frequently associated, among other things, with Anglicanism

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