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This is an accepted article with a DOI pre-assigned that is not yet published.The interdependence of all things is purportedly a teaching found across Eastern and Western philosophical traditions. Jizang (549−623 CE), a prominent Chinese Madhyamaka Buddhist philosopher, claims that if interdependence is established, all objects are established; if interdependence is broken, all objects are broken. He endorses “the interdependence thesis,” the view that the referents of complementary concepts are interdependent. In this paper, I clarify the thesis and characterize Jizang’s ontology as a form of metaphysical nonrealism. Drawing on this ontology, I construct an argument for the plausibility of the interdependence thesis. I also respond to several objections to my argument.