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To achieve enlightenment, the ultimate aim of oneself and others, it is not sufficient to have fully developed pure renunciation of samsara and the altruistic intention to achieve enlightenment. One definitely needs to have realized the ultimate truth of all phenomena: emptiness. This course is a detailed discourse on Nagarjuna's teachings of the Middle Way by means of Chandrakirti's Auto-Commentary to Entering the Middle Way and Lama Tsong Khapa's Illuminating the Intent of the Middle Way. Participants should ideally have a foundation of the stages of the Buddhist path, a motivation to study this text for the ultimate benefit of others, and a determination to follow the course in its entirety.