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How to Realize Emptiness
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Gen Lamrimpa
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B. Alan Wallace
translator
Ellen Posman
editor
Snow Lion Publications
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Description

Realizing emptiness or grasping the true nature of reality lies at the heart of the Buddhist path. In this book, Gen Lamrimpa offers practical instruction on Madhyamaka, insight meditation aimed at realizing emptiness. Drawing on his theoretical training as well as his extensive meditative experience, he explains how to use Madhyamaka reasoning to experience the way in which all things exist as dependently related events.
Citation
Gen Lamrimpa. How to Realize Emptiness. Translated by B. Alan Wallace. Edited by Ellen Posman. Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion, 2010
Publisher Link
https://www.shambhala.com/how-to-realize-emptiness-2256.html



Madhyamaka - Along with Yogācāra, it is one of the two major philosophical schools of Mahāyāna Buddhism. Founded by Nāgārjuna around the second century CE, it is rooted in the Prajñāpāramitā Sūtras, though its initial exposition was presented in Nāgārjuna's Mūlamadhyamakakārikā. Skt मध्यमक  Tib དབུ་མ་  Ch 中觀見  

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Śūnyatā - The state of being empty of an innate nature due to a lack of independently existing characteristics. Skt शून्यता  Tib སྟོང་པ་ཉིད་  Ch 空 and 空門  

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