Tiantai Zhiyi maintains that the reason the Wonderful Dharma is wonderful is its true absoluteness—i.e., its absolute absoluteness—which is provisionally presupposed to be in contrast with the relative as a way of elevating wonder to a higher position. But the proper meaning of wonderful is to be found in the inconceivable transcendence of dualistic thought and judgments that distinguish between absolute and relative. “The wonderful is derived from the inconceivable. That it is so named is not due to the finite and relative.” Zhiyi defines it as the “nonabsolute and nonrelative” or as the “extinguishing of both relative and absolute,” because it goes beyond both absolute and relative. Thus, we can say that Tiantai Zhiyi’s view of absoluteness has its origin in emptiness, a fundamental Buddhist view of truth, from which he developed his view of absoluteness. In fact, he sometimes refers to the idea of emptiness and works out logical developments based on it.