 For Mādhyamikas, things cannot have more than one final mode of existence—if they exist, they must exist qua only conventionally. Consequently, given the mutually exclusive relation of intrinsic reality and emptiness, if intrinsic reality is granted even a conventional reality status, Candrakīrti contends, one has to reject emptiness as the ultimate reality ([M] 6.34, DBu ma ‘a 205b). But since the Mādhyamika asserts emptiness to be the ultimate reality, and given that emptiness and intrinsic reality are mutually exclusive, Mādhyamika must reject intrinsic reality in all its forms—conventionally as well as ultimately ([MBh] 6.36, 1994: 118).