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" Emptiness " is the theory that all things and phenomena lack ( or are empty of ) any type of inherent identity or self-characterizing essence.

This lack of inherent existence does not mean that all phenomena are non-existent ; inherent non-existence is also negated by emptiness.

In the philosophy of Mahayana Buddhism, specifically in the Madhyamaka view, Emptiness is a category of Madhyamaka viewpoints attributed primarily to Indian scholar Candrakirti, but which is based also on Buddhapalita's commentaries on Nagarjuna.

Nagarjuna and later commentators use the method of logical consequence ( prasanga in Sanskrit ) to refute flawed views.

By using this type of reductio ad absurdum, Nagarjuna, Buddhapalita, Candrakirti, and later Lama Tsongkhapa simultaneously refutes incorrect / opposing viewpoints and establishes the position of.