 While Nishitani’s “field of śūnyatā” (kū no ba) corresponds in many respects to what Nishida calls the “place of absolute nothingness” (zettai-mu no basho), Nishitani takes the peculiar problems that beset the modern secular and technological world, as well as postmodern critiques of metaphysics and subjectivity (especially those of Nietzsche and Heidegger), far more seriously than did Nishida. Nishitani also connects his thought much more explicitly with the tradition of Mahāyāna Buddhism than did Nishida, writing on, and writing from, what he calls the “standpoint of Zen” (see NKC XI; and Nishitani 2009).