Nishida Kitarō (1870–1945), founder of the Kyoto School, drew on Zen and Western philosophy to speak of the “place of absolute nothingness” as the ultimate context of all being and consciousness. His successor Nishitani Keiji developed the idea in Religion and Nothingness, in dialogue with Eckhart and with Nietzsche’s nihilism.
Absolute Nothingness
In the Kyoto School, the groundless openness beyond being and non-being in which all things arise.
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