Question

The Madhyamaka ('Middle-Way') school of Mahayana Buddhism is regarded as the elucidation of the philsophy of which corpus of texts?

Answer 1

According to the classical Mādhyamaka thinkers, all phenomena (dharmas) are empty(śūnya) of "nature,"a "substance" or "essence" (svabhāva) which gives them "solid and independent existence," because they are dependently co-arisen.But this "emptiness" itself is also "empty": it does not have an existence on its own, nor does it refer to a transcendental reality beyond or above phenomenal reality.