Introduction to Emptiness

Written with illumination from a terrific scholar. --Jeffrey Hopkins, author of A Truthful Heart <br> This magnificent, readable, and thoroughly engaging work is a modern classic in the making. It invites new practitioners and learned scholars alike to look afresh at the dazzling array of teachings from one of the greatest figures in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. --Anne Carolyn Klein, author of Meeting the Great Bliss Queen and Unbounded Wholeness <br> Introduction to Emptiness is a marvelously clear, marvelously precise exposition of Tsong-kha-pa's understanding of emptiness and of the two truths as presented by Nagarjuna and Chandrakirti. . . . While the exposition is rich in technical detail and textual reference, it is absolutely accessible to the beginning student. It will be required reading in my Buddhist philosophy courses. --Jay L. Garfield, author of Ocean of Reasoning and Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way <br> Understanding emptiness is the key to the most important aspects of Buddhism--wisdom, compassion, tantra--but is difficult to teach. Guy Newland has drawn on long experience with college students to write a short but rich and pithy guide to emptiness that brims with common sense and apt examples. Anyone interested in Buddhism would benefit from reading it. --Daniel Cozort, author of Buddhist Philosophy and Highest Yoga Tantra <br> A guide that furnishes the tools and motivation for further exploration and even the confidence to take the next step, whatever that might be. . . . Introduction to Emptiness is an open-armed invitation into an important and all-too-often forbidding realm of study. -- Tricycle <br> Fresh and straightforward. . . . Complete and comprehensive. -- Buddhadharma: The Practitioner's Quarterly <br> Newland has written a guide that furnishes the tools and motivation for further exploration and even the confidence to take the next step, whatever that might be for the readers to try too