Pyrrhonian Buddhism: A Philosophical Reconstruction

by Adrian Kuzminski

The first turning, by emphasizing entities (dharmas, aggregates, etc.) while ‘hiding’ emptiness, might lead one to hold a substantialistic view; the second turning, by emphasizing negation while “hiding” the positive qualities of the Dharma, might be misconstrued as nihilism. The third turning was a middle way between these extremes that finally made everything explicit.