Abstract: This essay aims to critically position the modern theory of the parallax within some of Buddhism’s familiar principles and the conceptual landscape they provoke. By putting to work the simple analytic force of the parallax in the background of this essay, we think we are able to locate in Buddhism a parallactic coherence such as would establish a critical reading of some of its principles. We can refer here to Buddhism’s radical ethicality, neither metaphysics (or ontology) nor a philosophy in the sense it is conceived in the West.