Introduction to Emptiness

Subtitle: 
As Taught in Tsong-kha-pa's Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path
Name: 
Guy Newland
Publish Place: 
Ithaca
Publisher: 
Snow Lion Publications
Publish Year: 
2009
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Readers are hard-pressed to find books that can help them understand the central concept in Mahayana Buddhism - the idea that ultimate reality is "emptiness." In clear language, Introduction to Emptiness explains that emptiness is not a mystical sort of "nothingness," but a specific truth that can and must be understood through calm and careful reflection. Newland's contemporary examples and vivid anecdotes will be helpful to students trying to understand one of the great classic texts of the Tibetan tradition, Tsong-kha-pa's Great Treatise.