Over twenty-five hundred years ago, the Buddha described the inconceivable, perfectly pure true nature of reality in his teachings onTranscendent Wisdom (Sanskrit:Prajnaparamita).

Some five centuries later, the noble protector Nagarjuna, in his seminal text The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way,1 summarized these vast teachings of the Bud- dha and used logical reasoning to prove the validity of the Buddha’s words.

Entering the Middle Way is the glorious Chandrakirti’s explanation of the meaning of Nagarjuna’s work. Its sixth chapter, which constitutes the majority of the text, has four main sections: an explanation of how in gen- uine reality phenomena do not truly arise; a refutation of the Mind-Only (Sanskrit: Chittamatra) School’s assertion that mind truly exists; a refuta- tion of the true existence of the personal self; and an explanation of the six- teen types of emptiness taught by the Buddha in the Transcendent Wisdom sutras.

This book includes a translation of the Sixth Chapter of Chandrakirti's Entering the Middle Way along with a commentary on this text by the Eighth Karmapa, Mikyo Dorje.