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Yin Ling
Best book I have read this year, before this was published the best book was geshe sopa commentary on Tsongkhapa great treatise vol 5: insight.
Both are such a treat and blessings to this human. I’m planning to restudy after my bloody medical exams.
For me when a great scholar and practitioner put down words to paper from their genuine realisation, it carries the power to transfer their confidence in the dharma from their mind to my mind. His holiness is a true yogi of space and this whole series has been so helpful for someone like me who is not able to go through the standard Geshe /monastic degree. But because his holiness is too excellent in his scholarship and practice, this is not an easy book to read 
THE DALAI LAMA'S NEW RELEASE: APPEARING AND EMPTY
We are excited to announce the official release of Appearing and Empty—the newest volume in the Library of Wisdom and Compassion series, a special multivolume series in which His Holiness the Dalai Lama shares the Buddha’s teachings on the complete path to full awakening that he himself has practiced his entire life.
How is nothing something?
In Appearing and Empty, the last of three volumes on emptiness, His Holiness the Dalai Lama explores the wisdom of emptiness and the reality of enlightenment. He starts by taking us through the Sautrantika, Yogacara, and Svatantrika views on the ultimate nature of reality and the Prasangikas’ thorough responses to these, so that we gain the correct view of emptiness—the selflessness of both persons and phenomena. This view entails negating inherent existence while also being able to establish conventional existence: emptiness does not mean nothingness. We then learn how to meditate on the correct view by cultivating pristine wisdom that is the union of serenity and insight as taught in the Pali, Chinese, and Tibetan traditions. Such meditation, when combined with the altruistic intention of bodhicitta, leads to the complete eradication of all defilements that obscure our minds. This volume also introduces us to the tathagatagarbha—the buddha essence—and how it is understood in both Tibet and China. Is it permanent? Does everyone have it? In addition, the discussion of sudden and gradual awakening in Zen (Chan) Buddhism and in Tibetan Buddhism is fascinating.
