Subject: Tags: Spam prevention:Please, enter the code that you see below in the input field. This is for blocking bots that try to post this form automatically. If the code is hard to read, then just try to guess it right. If you enter the wrong code, a new image is created and you get another chance to enter it right.Enter code: Content: Itsuki Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Hi Tanaka-san, thank you for posting your > presentation. I could not attend the workshop so I > am glad to be able to take a look.I have > always been puzzled about the Madhyamaka rejection > of intrinsic nature, particularly their argument > from dependency (Slide 17). Does the fact that > everything arises dependently show that nothing > can have intrinsic nature? I also wonder if any > Abhidharma-oriented Buddhists really believed that > dharmas were independent in the way MAdhyamikas > think they did. After all, Abhidharmikas were > Buddhists too, and believed in dependent > origination. So they would (in fact they do) say > that things with intrinsic natures arise from > preceding causes and conditions, and indeed come > to possess those intrinsic natures dependently on > them.Still, I do think that the argument from > conceptual dependency works.Anyway, my question > is: Do you agree that causal dependency and > intrinsic nature are mutually exclusive?