Nāgārjuna's Madhyamaka tradition, which deeply influenced Japanese Buddhism, holds that emptiness (śūnyatā) is itself communicable via conventional truth within a two-truths framework.

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Japanese Buddhism(as the cultural and religious context influenced by Madhyamaka): Forms of Buddhism that developed and evolved in Japan, influenced by Chinese and Indian Buddhist traditions, including schools like Pure Land and Zen.
Madhyamaka(Buddhist metaphysics applied to ethics): The philosophical view that nothing exists ultimately; for Śāntideva, the deepest expression of the Buddha's message
Nāgārjuna(as a historical philosopher): An influential Buddhist philosopher from around the 2nd century CE who developed a logical system for critiquing how people explain things.
Two-truths framework(the main system being discussed in this statement): A Buddhist philosophical idea that reality can be understood in two ways: conventional truth (how things appear to us) and ultimate truth (how things really are at the deepest level).

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