Christian Thomas Kohl The Metaphysical Foundations of Buddhism and Modern Science

existence which is unchangeable, eternal and existing by itself. Things do not
arise out of themselves, they do not exist absolutely and are dependent. Their
permanent being or existence cannot be found. The many interpretations of
Nagarjuna which claim that he is also refuting the empirical existence of
objects, are making an inadmissible generalization which moves Nagarjuna near
to subjectivism, nihilism and instrumentalism. Such interpretations originate in
metaphysical approaches which themselves have a difficulty in recognizing the
empirical existence of the data presented. This is not at all the case with
Nagarjuna. Nagarjuna presents the dependence of phenomena mainly in images
as in the twenty-five chapters of the MMK. [12]