This stand-alone book is the final volume of a trilogy on Mind-Only that Hopkins composed over the last twenty-two years. Here Hopkins presents opinions on crucial issues from twenty-two commentaries on Dzong-ka-ba's The Essence of Eloquence, considered by his followers to be so challenging that it is called his steel bow and steel arrow, hard to pull but powerful when one succeeds. The careful and intense analysis with which these scholar-yogis probe these 170 issues over time opens a door into patterns of thought that constitute the environment of the text. Hopkins' lively style draws the reader into the drama, stimulating the reader's metaphysical imagination.

Absorption in No External World, Jeffrey Hopkins, Snow Lion Publications, Hardcover, 2006, 580 Pages, $59.95

Jeffrey is a professor of religious studies at the University of Virginia where he has taught Tibetan Studies and Tibetan language since 1973. From 1979 to 1989, he served as His Holiness the Dalai Lama's chief interpreter into English.

Detailed Outline	ix
Preface	xx
Technical Note	xxiii
Monastic Inquiry	3
The Essence Is Emptiness	10
God of Wisdom and God of Gods	19
Identifying First-Whelled Teachings	25
Probing the Implications	50
Other Views on Own-Character	74
Wonch'uk: Refutation and Revival	107
Creating Consistency	118
Finishing the Question	133
Interpretation	149
Other-Powered Natures	170
Imputational Natures191	195
Entering the Maze	220
Review: Two Riddles	246
Posited by Names and Terminology	273
Probing Establishemtn by Way of Its Own Character	289
Enforcing Consistency	307
The First Ultimate-Non-Nature	327
Ramifications	350
Two Ultimate-Non-Natures	383
Comparing School on the Three Non-Natures	424
Strategies for Interpretation	433
Appendix: Wonch'uk's Influence in Tibet	463
Backnotes	493
Glossary	509
List of Abbreviations	537
Bibiliography	539
Index	559