In Mahayana Buddhism, "emptiness" is the philosophical central pillar generally thought as the foundation of phenomena. This paper demonstrates that, in Mahayana Buddhism, "nothing," or "death" also works with "emptiness" to support the phenomena.
In this demonstration, I refer to Y. Saito's phenomenology which insists "emptiness" and "nothing," or "death" bring the phenomena. Saito's "emptiness" is his own phenomenological concept. There is no evidence proving that his phenomenological "emptiness" relates to Mahayana Buddhism's "emptiness." However, I found some similarities in these two kinds of "emptiness" by comparing them. If Saito's "emptiness" and Mahayana Buddhism's "emptiness" have similar concepts, then not only "emptiness," but both "emptiness" and "nothing," or "death" bring the phenomena in Mahayana Buddhism as Saito's phenomenology points out.
Moreover, I consider how valuable graves and funerals are in Mahayana Buddhism. This shows an argument against the people stating Buddhism has no relation to funerals.

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