 Many aspects of these questions have been addressed in vast body of commentarial literature that was written in the nearly two millennia since Nāgārjuna composed his key philosophical works. Other still remain to be addressed. (For some development of contemporary Madhyamaka ideas in relation to contemporary Western philosophy see Garfield 2015, Westerhoff 2020.) One of these is the question to which extent Madhyamaka thought is essentially linked to Buddhism. This is a question that has attracted more interest recently especially from researchers that study Madhyamaka primarily as a philosophical, rather than as a religious tradition. (For some interesting reflections on matter this see McGuire 2017). If we consider the lively status of Madhyamaka studies today it seems evident that the questions Nāgārjuna asked and the system of philosophy he founded in the second century remain very much alive in the twenty-first.