A LIBRARIAN’S ORIENTATION
What this book explores
Newland uses contemporary examples to explain emptiness as taught through Tsongkhapa’s Tibetan Gelug interpretation of Madhyamaka Buddhism.
EDITORIAL NOTE
Why it’s in the Library
It gives travelers an accessible Buddhist account of emptiness and dependent arising, helping prevent ‘nonduality’ from flattening a precise Buddhist teaching into a generic claim that everything is one.
Good starting place if…
You want a patient conceptual introduction to Buddhist emptiness and are comfortable following an argument as well as a spiritual teaching.
Know before you begin…
Emptiness does not mean that nothing exists, nor is it identical to an Advaita teaching about one ultimate Self. This book presents a specifically Gelug reading within a wider field of Buddhist interpretation.