Yaroslav Komarovski (PhD University of Virginia, 2007) is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He is the author of Tibetan Buddhism and Mystical Experience (OUP 2015).

• Introduction 1. Profound Thunder amidst the Clouds of the Ocean of Definitive Meaning: Differentiation of the Two Systems of the Great Madhyamaka Deriving from the Two Great Chariot Ways 2. Rain of Ambrosia: Extensive Auto-Commentary on the Treatise That, Explaining Differentiation of the Two Ways of Great Chariots, Establishes the Definitive Meaning Approved by Them as One English-Tibetan GlossaryGlossary of Tibetan Names and TitlesBibliographyIndex

Elevating Yogācāra to the level of Madhyamaka and admitting irreconcilable differences between Yogācāra and Niḥsvabhāvavāda, Shakya Chokden nevertheless presents both systems as providing valid philosophical and contemplative means of achieving Buddhahood...Exploring these and other seminal issues in Buddhist thought and contemplative practice, the book serves as an invaluable source for scholars and advanced students of Tibetan Buddhism.

Yaroslav Komarovski (PhD University of Virginia, 2007) is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He is the author of Tibetan Buddhism and Mystical Experience (OUP 2015).

• Introduction 1. Profound Thunder amidst the Clouds of the Ocean of Definitive Meaning: Differentiation of the Two Systems of the Great Madhyamaka Deriving from the Two Great Chariot Ways 2. Rain of Ambrosia: Extensive Auto-Commentary on the Treatise That, Explaining Differentiation of the Two Ways of Great Chariots, Establishes the Definitive Meaning Approved by Them as One English-Tibetan GlossaryGlossary of Tibetan Names and TitlesBibliographyIndex

Elevating Yogācāra to the level of Madhyamaka and admitting irreconcilable differences between Yogācāra and Niḥsvabhāvavāda, Shakya Chokden nevertheless presents both systems as providing valid philosophical and contemplative means of achieving Buddhahood...Exploring these and other seminal issues in Buddhist thought and contemplative practice, the book serves as an invaluable source for scholars and advanced students of Tibetan Buddhism.

Yaroslav Komarovski (PhD University of Virginia, 2007) is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He is the author of Tibetan Buddhism and Mystical Experience (OUP 2015).

• Introduction 1. Profound Thunder amidst the Clouds of the Ocean of Definitive Meaning: Differentiation of the Two Systems of the Great Madhyamaka Deriving from the Two Great Chariot Ways 2. Rain of Ambrosia: Extensive Auto-Commentary on the Treatise That, Explaining Differentiation of the Two Ways of Great Chariots, Establishes the Definitive Meaning Approved by Them as One English-Tibetan GlossaryGlossary of Tibetan Names and TitlesBibliographyIndex

Elevating Yogācāra to the level of Madhyamaka and admitting irreconcilable differences between Yogācāra and Niḥsvabhāvavāda, Shakya Chokden nevertheless presents both systems as providing valid philosophical and contemplative means of achieving Buddhahood...Exploring these and other seminal issues in Buddhist thought and contemplative practice, the book serves as an invaluable source for scholars and advanced students of Tibetan Buddhism.