 Ueda Shizuteru—a student of Nishitani’s who has since the 1980s been at the center of the revival of Nishida studies—also takes a topological, phenomenological, and existential approach to the idea of absolute nothingness; and he also explicitly orients himself to and from the standpoint of Zen (Ueda 2011c). Following in the tradition of the Kyoto School’s dialogue with Western philosophers, in one of his influential works Ueda engages the work of Husserl, Heidegger and other phenomenologists to articulate a religiously charged philosophy of what he calls “twofold being-in-the-world” (nijūsekainaisonzai) (USS IX; see also Döll 2010).