An absorbing and highly readable presentation of the highest development in Buddhist insight. Professor Jeffrey Hopkins--considered by many to be the foremost contemporary Western authority on Tibetan Buddhism--presents and in-depth, lively exposition of the methods of realization of the Middle Way Consequence School (Prasangika Madhyamika).

This is based on the a famous work by Jang-gya Tol-bay-dor-jay (lcang skya rol pa'i rdo rje, 1717-1786) which was used as a primary text in Tibet's largest monasteries. A translation of this text is included as well as the Tibetan text itself.

The many reasonings used to analyze persons and phenomena and to establish their true mode of existence are presented in the context of meditative practice. Included is a masterful treatment of the compatibility in thought and experience of emptiness and dependent arising. Emptiness Yoga will be greatly appreciated by both beginners and advanced students for its immediacy, profundity, and precision.

Emptiness Yoga: The Tibetan Middle Way, Jeffrey Hopkins, Snow Lion Publications, Paperback, 510 pages, $39.95

Jeffrey Hopkins, PhD, served for a decade as the interpreter for the Dalai Lama. A Buddhist scholar and the author of more than thirty-five books, he is Professor Emeritus at the University of Virginia, where he founded the largest academic program in Tibetan Buddhist studies in the West.