The book presents a detailed comparison of process philosophy and Madhyamika Buddhism, analyzing the similarities and differences between the two. It attempts a creative integration between the two and introduces a new philosophy, Process Buddhism. Process thought underscores the view that reality is a cumulative process of perspectival and experiential events. Peter Kakol's work shows that the Madhyamika teaching, which essentially stresses the "emptiness of emptiness" and process theory of worldviews are complementary aspect of the same theory.

Emptiness And Becoming: Integrating Madhyamika Buddhism and Process Philosophy, Peter Paul Kakol,
D.K. Printworld, 2009, 423 Pages, $38.00

Peter Kakol (b. 1967) lived in Geelong, a city in the Australian state of Victoria. Raised a Catholic, he began early to question his faith, and this led to an interest in philosophy and world religions. Christianity and Buddhism were the traditions which most fascinated him. But the only religion in which he could truly believed was one of his own creation. Hence he began to develop a blend of process thought and Buddhism. This culminated in his doctoral dissertation at Deakin University.
A year before his death from cancer, in 2002, Peter Kakol completed his PhD.

Foreword - Robert C. Neville	vii
	Preamble: Process Philosophy to Process Buddhism - Purushottama Bilimoria	xi
	Acknowledgements - Peter Paul Kakol	xxiv
1	INTRODUCTION	1
2	SURVEY AND DISCUSSION	5
	Review of Relevant
	Literature Discussion
3	PROCESS PHILOSOPHY	15
	A Brief History of Categories
	Hartshornes Creative Synthesis of the Categories The Dual Transcendence of the Divine Process Thought and Post-modernism
4	MADHYAMIKA PHILOSOPHY	57
	Introductory Exposition of Madhyamika Philosophy
	Eastern and Western Interpretations of Madhyamika
	Some Comparisons of Madhyamika with Western Philosophies
5	THE PROCESS CRITIQUE OF MADHYAMIKA	107
	Non-process Critique of Madhyamika
	Process Philosophys Response to Madhyamika
	Analysis and Response to These Critiques
6	THE MADHYAMIKA CRITIQUE OF PROCESS PHILOSOPHY	157
	Eternal Objects, Metaphysics, and God
	Deconstruction of the Categories
	Actual Occasions and Dharmas
	The two Becomings
	Some Remaining Issues
7	CREATIVE EMPTINESS AND THE EMPTY GOD	189
	Creativity in Process Philosophy
	Emptiness in Madhyamika
	A Theory of Creative Emptiness
	God and Creative Emptiness: Same or Different?
	The Status of God
8	INTEGRATING MADHYAMIKA AND PROCESS THOUGHT	263
	The two Ultimates and the two Truths
	The Trinity and Beyond
	Deconstruction and Diagonalization
	The two Immanent Transcendentals
	A Logical Framework Integrating Process Semantics and Negative Dialectics
9	PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS: DIALOGUE AND WORLD-VIEWS	309
	Madhyamika-process Dialogue and a General Theory of Dialogue
	A General Theory of World-views Based on Process Buddhism
10	PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS: ETHICS AND SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT	323
	Liberating Praxis or Ideology?
	A Process Buddhist Ethics
	A Socially Engaged Process Buddhism
11	CONCLUSION	369
	BIBLIOGRARPHY	375
	INDEX	411