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Shentong is a philosophical sub-school found in Tibetan Buddhism whose adherents generally hold that the nature of mind, the substratum of the mindstream, is 'empty' (Wylie: sTong) of 'other' (Wylie: gzhen) (i.e., empty of all qualities other than an inherent, ineffable nature), in contrast to the “Rangtong” view of the followers of Prasangika Madhyamaka, who hold that all phenomena are unequivocally empty of self-nature, without positing anything beyond that. According to Shentongpas, the emptiness of ultimate reality should not be characterized in the same way as the emptiness of apparent phenomena because it is prabhasvarachitta, or "clear light mind/heart," endowed with limitless Buddha qualities.[2]. It is empty of all that is false, not empty of the limitless Buddha qualities that are its innate nature.