Insight into Emptiness

by Khensur Jampa Tegchok, Thubten Chodron (Editor)

A former abbot of one of the largest Tibetan Buddhist monasteries in the world, Khensur Jampa Tegchok has been teaching Westerners about Buddhism since the 1970s. With a deep respect for the intellectual capacity of his students, Khensur Tegchok here unpacks with great erudition Buddhism's animating philosophical principle - the emptiness of all appearances. Engagingly edited by bestselling author Thubten Chodron, emptiness is here approached from a host of angles far beyond most treatments of the subject, while never sacrificing its conversational approach.

Genres: Buddhism, Spirituality, Philosophy

296 pages, Paperback

First published July 10, 2012

Reviews

[Stephen C · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was a challenging read for me. I was able to follow maybe 2% of it at best. I'm working to gain a better understanding reading other texts and I'll return to this often to see if I can grasp a bit more.

[Everett Grandy · Rating 5 out of 5]

An Awakening

One is quite obscured in cyclic observations. To open intellect unto it's natural nature for this westerner has proved a mindful. Emptiness is ungraspable as object yet so undeniably present.

[Sandy · Rating 1 out of 5]

DNF: Excellent analysis of emptiness, finer and finer. This is a text for serious Buddhist scholars, not practitioners. Edited by Venerable Thubten Chodron.