Jeffrey Hopkins is Professor of Tibetan and Buddhist Studies at the University of Virginia. His more than twenty-five books include Emptiness in the Mind-Only School of Buddhism (California, 1999) and Cultivating Compassion (2001) and, as translator-editor, His Holiness the Dalai Lama's How to Practice (2002) and The Meaning of Life (2000).

"This is without question the finest and most complete discussion of the renowned Mind-Only school and its Tibetan context." -Anne C. Klein, author of Knowledge and Liberation, Path to the Middle "An important new contribution to our understanding of the development of Buddhist philosophical thought in Tibet." - Matthew T. Kapstein, author of The Tibetan Assimilation of Buddhism: Conversion, Contestation, and Memory

• Preface Technical Notes Part One: Background Part Two: Religous Significance of the Three Natures of Phenomena Part Three: Examining the Sutra Unraveling the Thought Part Four: Thoroughly Established Nature Endowed with Buddha Qualities Part Five: Views on the Two Emptinesses Part Six: Undermining Error Appendix 1 Appendix 2 Appendix 3 Backnotes Bibliography Index