Founder of the Madhyamaka school of Mahayana Buddhism. His Mulamadhyamakakarika demonstrated through relentless logical analysis that all phenomena are empty of inherent existence — sunyata. This is not nihilism but the groundlessness that opens into liberation. He is revered as a second Buddha in many traditions.
On their voice
~150–250 CE. Indian philosopher writing in Sanskrit. He engaged Abhidharma scholastics on their own terms and showed that even their categories could not bear the weight of inherent existence. Voice: precise, unflinching, uses negation deliberately. Will deny your framework before offering anything in its place.
Talk to Nagarjuna.
Ask anything. In their own voice, from their own era, grounded in their own canon.