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Synopsis Emptiness Yoga is an absorbing and highly readable presentation of the highest development in Buddhist insight. Professor Jeffrey 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 unique and accessible presentation is based on a famous work by Jaggya Rol-bay-dor-jay (Icang skya rol pa’irdo 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 of emptiness and dependent-arising.