Realizing Emptiness: The Madhyamaka Cultivation of Insight
By Gen Lamrimpa. Trans. B. Alan Wallace
Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion, 1999. Paperback, 131 pages.
Gen Lamrimpa is a disciple of the Dalai Lama who has lived in meditative solitude in a hut above Dharamsala, India, since 1971. At: the urging of the translator, Alan Wa11ace, "Genla," as he is called by his students, came to Washington State to lead a one-year meditation retreat during 1988. This was followed by lectures of instruction that form the basis of Realizing Emptiness, which is designed to provide practical instruction for those pursuing Madhyamaka meditation.