Nagarjuna

Buddha’s austere dualism of mental atoms and physical atoms is not austere enough for idealist disciples. They ground all of reality on ideas. The budget is further cut by Nagarjuna, who questions the presupposition that there is a fundamental level of being. He sees no inconsistency in a universe that is divisible without limit. Instead of asserting that the universe is atomless, Nagarjuna just supposes it. He pioneers an epistemology of nothing in which one suspends judgment instead of taking philosophical sides. A philosopher should not write a book What I Believe because he is only trained to draw connections between beliefs. Speaking as a professional, he beliefs nothing. Nagarjuna attains a higher level of detachment than Buddha.