num_pages: 1017
description: In this his major work Jeffrey Hopkins one of the world's foremost scholar-practitioners of Tibetan Buddhism offers a clear exposition of the Prasasgika-Madhyamaka view of emptiness as presented in the Ge-luk-ba tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. In bringing this remarkable and complex philosophy to life he describes the meditational practices by which emptiness can be realized and shows throughout that far from being merely abstract these teachings can be vivid and utterly practical. Presented in six parts this book Is indispensable for those wishing to delve deeply into Buddhist thought.This 1996 Revised Edition includes a critical edition of Jamyang Shpa Ngawang Tsndr's root text Great Exposition of the Tenets (1689) in Tibetan text.
language: English
title: Meditation on Emptiness
publisher: Wisdom Publications