 The Geluk interpretation of the Middle Way offers a unique presentation of the Buddhist doctrine of two truths: the ultimate truth and conventional (or relative) truth. Geluk philosophers are concerned to avoid the reification of the ultimate truth and the deprecation of conventional truth, arguing that conventional existence and ultimate nonexistence are mutually implicative. In this tradition, the two truths are said to be “extensionally identical but intensionally distinct” (ngo bo gcig la ldog pa tha dad). That is, the two truths are not different entities, but are conceptually distinct aspects of all entities. Thus Geluk philosophers argue that (1) to exist is to be empty and (2) to exist is to exist conventionally (see Changkya in Cozort 1998, 429).