Anne C. Klein is Associate Professor in the Department of Religious Studies, Rice University. Her books include Knowledge and Liberation and Knowing Naming and Negation, and the forthcoming Meeting the Great Bliss Queen: Buddhists, Feminists, and the Art of the Self.

• Acknowledgments Technical Note Prologue Preface Introduction. Oral and Textual Genres: Buddhist Philosophy and the Many Dimensions of Reading in Tibet Part I: Kensur Yeshey Tupden on Emptiness and the Bodhisattva Path 1. Introduction to the Sixth Bodhisattva Ground2. Three Features of Understanding3. The Students of Emptiness4. How Good Qualities Arise When Emptiness is Explained5. Exhortation to the Students of Emptiness Part II: Ken sur Yeshey Tupden on the Meaning of Emptiness 6. The Sameness of Things: Dependent Arising and Reality7. Valid Existence and Analysis8. The Svatantrika School on True Existence9. The Magician's Illusion: Truth and Falsity for Worldly Persons10. The Prasangika School of True Existence Part III: Tsong-Kah -Pa's TextTranslated by Jeffrey Hopkins and Anne Klein, annotated by Jeffrey Hopkins 1. Introduction to the Profound Meaning2. Dependent Arising and Reality3. The Svatantrika School on True Existence4. The Prasangika School on True Existence Glossaries English-Tibetan-SanskritTibetan-Sanskrit-EnglishSanskrit-English-Tibetan Notes Bibliography Index Epilogue

"The work will be of use to scholars of Tibetan Buddhism and comparative philosophers of religion. Everyone in oral studies should read the introduction." —S. Jaffee"The text that is the subject of Professor Klein's study is one of the most important in the history of Tibetan Buddhism. Her innovative approach will make the work of interest not only to scholars, for whom it will be essential reading, but more generally to anyone interested in the Tibetan interpretation of emptiness." —Jose Ignacio Cabezon