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Draft for Sunyata article:

Modern scholarly interpretations:

Scholarly interpretations of this

As part of the trend of Mark Siderits of fusion philosophy - in which there is a use of Western philosophical frameworks for interpretation of ancient Indian texts - there are a variety of Western interpretations of this concept.

metaphysical, nihilistic, semantic

(Murti, 1955) --> metaphysical

Siderits --> semantic

Westerhoff --> nihilistic

Ironic engagement emptiness

An overview of them include:

- Siderits, Garfield: semantic

- Westerhoff: anti-foundalionalist

The nihilist interpretation Westerhoff is talking about here is to be distinguished from the one notably advanced by Wood (1994). Instead, Westerhoff argues that the Madhyamaka could be plausibly interpreted as adopting a nihilist position by combining non-foundationalism and eliminativism. For his specific formulation of this, see Westerhoff (2016, pp.358-370).

Comparisons between the