[DoctorTDent]

Excellent points, Rhysman.

Besides anatta (non-self), anything subject to dukkha (unsatisfactoriness) and anicca (transitivity) cannot exist inherently. Nagarjuna used the term svabhava (self-nature, own-being) to connote that which has inherent existence. He then thoroughly dissected this notion of svabhava and blew it to smithereens.