Palden Sherab Rinpoche and his brother Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal Rinpoche have produced a series of very readable books taking on many major Buddhist Topics. If you were able to attend any of their teachings you would see Palden Sherab teaching in Tibetan and his brother translating. This team which took on both elementary and very advanced topics--many, but not all from the Nyingma prospective--to give their students a well-rounded set of teachings on Buddhism. We have had to shorten the title of this book and the names of the "two khenpos" as they are often called but these teachings are a collaboration of both brothers.

There are three major vehicles in Buddhism-- the Foundation of the Shavakas, the Mahayan Vehicle of the Bodhisattvas, and the Vajrayana vehicle of tantra. The Madhyamaka or Middle Way school is the second Mahayan Vehicles and is greatly involved in the study of emptiness and also the path of bodhisattva.

In this book the khenpo brothers give a very lucid summary of this second Mahayana Vehicle.