The Ultimate Good

Ippolito Desideri, a Jesuit missionary who lived for five years in Tibet in the XVIII century, wrote a critique of the Buddhist Madhyamika's rejection of a creator God. In his book, originally written in Tibetan and translated into Italian in the mid XIX century, Desideri argued that the very notions of emptiness and impermanence, upheld in Buddhism, require the existence of a personal, transcendent God.