ABSTRACT
However, just as Gotama Buddha was silent or suspended his judgement concerning the subject of pain and sorrow, Nagarjuna was also silent or suspended his judgement concerning the subject who observes that everything is sanyata. As a result of this, I would suppose that the Consciousness-only theory of the Yogacara school and the theory of Buddha-nature were propounded in order to make clear, from the standpoint of sanyata, what Nagarjuna did not try to do. In other words Buddhism finally came to take up such problems as the subject of pain and sorrow and that of cognition concerning which any judgement was suspended in early Buddhism. These are actually nothing but problems of Atman and Brahman in the Vedanta Philosophy.
