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Emptiness Yoga is an absorbing and highly readable presentation of the
highest development in Buddhist insight. Professor Jeffery Hopkins--considered
by many to be the foremost contemporary Western authority on Tibetan
Buddhism--presents an in-depth, lively exposition of the methods of realization
of the Middle Way Consequence School (Prasangika Madhyamika). His personal and
accessible presentation is based on a famous work by Jang-gya Rol-bay-dorjay
(lcang skya rol pa 'i rdo rje, 1717-86) 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. This exposition includes 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.
Reviews:
'Although, I had only a beginners understanding of Tibetan Buddhism before I
read this book, I felt myself easily acquainted with the analytical methods
discussed in "Emptiness Yoga." Hopkins is able to elucidate complex
philosophical and experiential topics concerning the meditative practices of
Tibetan Buddhism so that anyone with a good philosophical background or an
acquaintance with meditation will be able to gain a more profound understanding
of emptiness. My only criticism is that I often felt myself being tantalized by
what appeared, at least on closer inspection, to be over-simplistic analytical
tools. Though, this is perhaps more a problem with the subject matter than the
writer. I had always envisioned Tibetan Buddhism to be more experiential and
subtle in its understanding of cause and effect and emptiness. Yet, perhaps
further complexity is not within the scope of this book. Nevertheless, I highly
recommend this book to anyone interested in Buddhism or in attaining a more
profound understanding of emptiness." - Review from Kumamoto Japan:
"Hopkins deserves congratulations on making this difficult material on the
nature of emptiness as transparent as possible." - Religious Studies Review
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