Introduction / by his Holiness the Dalai Lama
The importance of realizing the ultimate nature, emptiness
The Nālandā tradition
Introduction to the philosophical tenet systems
Overview of Buddhist and non-Buddhist tenet systems
Comparing assertions
Cognizing subjects and cognized objects
The importance of realizing emptiness
Objects of negation
The middle way view
The extreme of absolutism
Pāli tradition: abandoning the two extremes
Pāli tradition: cultivating insight knowledge
Coda: the Pāli Abhidharma.