Quaternity of the sacred and profane- the overcoming of modern nihilism in Buddhist emptiness

This article aims to develop a possible solution to the duality between the notions of sacred and profane as a characteristic of modern nihilism and its overcoming as presented in a specific perspective of Mircea Eliade's thought, which is that of Buddhist emptiness, particularly developed by Nishitani, a Buddhist monk from the Kyoto School. This Buddhist emptiness is communicated through Ch'an (Zen) Buddhism, and its foundation in the emptiness of Indian Mah & amacr;y & amacr;na Buddhism. The article also seeks to bring the rudiments of the notion that the overcoming of modern nihilism necessarily involves the (inter)religious dialogue of records of religion developed in Western Europe and in the Sino-Japanese East. The research path uses the philosophy of contemporary hermeneutics of the theory of the interrelational network because it is an adequate instrument due to the relational logic (anti- metaphysical) that enables the comparative-reflexive activity of Western and Eastern records of knowledge.