Beyond Emptiness (Revised Edition)
The Perfect Fusion of Buddhist Wisdom and Modern Life - From Spiritual Autonomy to a Fulfilled Life (Traditional Chinese Edition)
2nd Edition
Published on 31. July 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
538 pages
979-8-88991-034-3 (ISBN)
Description
Beyond Emptiness Lies Your True
Nature-and Your Mission
Beyond Emptiness is a clear and systematic guide to spiritual
practice, bridging transmission, philosophy, and practical application. With
its precise lineage, transcendent insights, and rigorous methods, this work
illuminates the path of awakening in a language both accessible and profound.
Hailed by Buddhist scholar Tan Xiyong, former
president of the North American Buddhist Association, as "the finest Buddhist
work of the last hundred years, perhaps longer," Beyond Emptiness has
also been praised as the most significant contribution to Chinese Buddhism
since Zhiyi's Great Calming and Contemplation.
This is not merely a book of doctrine, but a
living guide-showing how wisdom can break through conceptual boundaries and
transform both mind and life.
Xuemo, born in 1963 as Chen Kaihong, is a renowned writer
from Gansu, China. He has written over 80 books, published in more than 200 editions, with
translations available in over 20 languages.
Xuemo's novel Into the Desert won the 2022
Excellent Translation Award by the China International Communications Group (CICG),
the 2024 NYC Big Book Award for Women's Fiction and the 2024 Independent Press
Award for Literary Fiction. Xuemo has been named International Impact Book
Awards-Author of the Year 2025 for Into the Desert. His novel Curses of the Kingdom of Xixia won the
2024 NYC Big Book Award for World Literature. The novel Wild Fox Ridge won
the 2024 International Impact Book Awards, it was also honored with the 2025
International Book Awards and 2026 NYC Big Book Award. White Tiger Pass
received the 2026 International Impact Book Awards. He has been nominated three
times for the Mao Dun Literature Prize and has won the Dunhuang Literature and
Art Award six consecutive times.
The e-book editions of Desert Rites, Desert Hunters,
White Tiger Pass, Love Letters from the Goddess, Eternal Love
and Reclaim the Throne of Your Heart have repeatedly ranked No. 1 on
Amazon's bestseller lists.
Nature-and Your Mission
Beyond Emptiness is a clear and systematic guide to spiritual
practice, bridging transmission, philosophy, and practical application. With
its precise lineage, transcendent insights, and rigorous methods, this work
illuminates the path of awakening in a language both accessible and profound.
Hailed by Buddhist scholar Tan Xiyong, former
president of the North American Buddhist Association, as "the finest Buddhist
work of the last hundred years, perhaps longer," Beyond Emptiness has
also been praised as the most significant contribution to Chinese Buddhism
since Zhiyi's Great Calming and Contemplation.
This is not merely a book of doctrine, but a
living guide-showing how wisdom can break through conceptual boundaries and
transform both mind and life.
Xuemo, born in 1963 as Chen Kaihong, is a renowned writer
from Gansu, China. He has written over 80 books, published in more than 200 editions, with
translations available in over 20 languages.
Xuemo's novel Into the Desert won the 2022
Excellent Translation Award by the China International Communications Group (CICG),
the 2024 NYC Big Book Award for Women's Fiction and the 2024 Independent Press
Award for Literary Fiction. Xuemo has been named International Impact Book
Awards-Author of the Year 2025 for Into the Desert. His novel Curses of the Kingdom of Xixia won the
2024 NYC Big Book Award for World Literature. The novel Wild Fox Ridge won
the 2024 International Impact Book Awards, it was also honored with the 2025
International Book Awards and 2026 NYC Big Book Award. White Tiger Pass
received the 2026 International Impact Book Awards. He has been nominated three
times for the Mao Dun Literature Prize and has won the Dunhuang Literature and
Art Award six consecutive times.
The e-book editions of Desert Rites, Desert Hunters,
White Tiger Pass, Love Letters from the Goddess, Eternal Love
and Reclaim the Throne of Your Heart have repeatedly ranked No. 1 on
Amazon's bestseller lists.
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Edition
2nd Revised edition
Language
Other
Place of publication
United States
Edition type
Revised edition
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 31 mm
Weight
864 gr
ISBN-13
979-8-88991-034-3 (9798889910343)
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Xuemo, born in 1963 as Chen Kaihong, is a renowned writer
from Gansu, China. He has written
over 80 books,
published in more than 200 editions, with translations available in over 20
languages, including English, French, German, Korean, Russian, and Spanish.
Xuemo is one of China's most influential contemporary
writers. His audiobook Buddha's Wisdom: Xuemo Interprets the Diamond Sutra
on the Himalaya platform, has been played over 35 million times and remains a
top-ranking program. His series What's on Laozi's mind: Xuemo Interprets Dao
De Jing has sold nearly one million copies in China.
Since 2019, his works have been featured in
independent booths at major international book fairs and film festivals in
Germany, London, the United States, and across Asia. In 2022, he topped the
International Media Spotlight List at the Frankfurt Book Fair, drawing more
attention than the Guest of Honor, Spain. This
achievement was hailed as one of the most remarkable and memorable events of
the Frankfurt Book Fair 2022.
Notably, more than ten of his works have been
translated by Howard Goldblatt and Sylvia Li-chun Lin, the distinguished
translators of Nobel Prize-winning literature. Research
centers devoted to his work have been established at Ningbo University and
Central South University.
Xuemo's novel Into the Desert won the 2022 Excellent Translation Award by the China
International Communications Group (CICG), the 2024 NYC Big Book Award for Women's
Fiction and the 2024 Independent Press Award for Literary Fiction. Xuemo has been named International Impact Book Awards-Author
of the Year 2025 for Into the Desert. His novel Curses of the Kingdom of Xixia won
the 2024 NYC Big Book Award for World Literature. The novel Wild Fox Ridge
won the 2024 International Impact Book Awards, it was also honored with the
2025 International Book Awards and 2026 NYC Big Book Award. White Tiger Pass
received the 2026 International Impact Book Awards. He has been nominated three
times for the Mao Dun Literature Prize and has won the Dunhuang Literature and
Art Award six consecutive times.
The e-book
editions of Desert Rites, Desert Hunters, White Tiger Pass,
Love Letters from the Goddess, Eternal Love and Reclaim the Throne of
Your Heart have repeatedly ranked No. 1 on Amazon's bestseller lists.
from Gansu, China. He has written
over 80 books,
published in more than 200 editions, with translations available in over 20
languages, including English, French, German, Korean, Russian, and Spanish.
Xuemo is one of China's most influential contemporary
writers. His audiobook Buddha's Wisdom: Xuemo Interprets the Diamond Sutra
on the Himalaya platform, has been played over 35 million times and remains a
top-ranking program. His series What's on Laozi's mind: Xuemo Interprets Dao
De Jing has sold nearly one million copies in China.
Since 2019, his works have been featured in
independent booths at major international book fairs and film festivals in
Germany, London, the United States, and across Asia. In 2022, he topped the
International Media Spotlight List at the Frankfurt Book Fair, drawing more
attention than the Guest of Honor, Spain. This
achievement was hailed as one of the most remarkable and memorable events of
the Frankfurt Book Fair 2022.
Notably, more than ten of his works have been
translated by Howard Goldblatt and Sylvia Li-chun Lin, the distinguished
translators of Nobel Prize-winning literature. Research
centers devoted to his work have been established at Ningbo University and
Central South University.
Xuemo's novel Into the Desert won the 2022 Excellent Translation Award by the China
International Communications Group (CICG), the 2024 NYC Big Book Award for Women's
Fiction and the 2024 Independent Press Award for Literary Fiction. Xuemo has been named International Impact Book Awards-Author
of the Year 2025 for Into the Desert. His novel Curses of the Kingdom of Xixia won
the 2024 NYC Big Book Award for World Literature. The novel Wild Fox Ridge
won the 2024 International Impact Book Awards, it was also honored with the
2025 International Book Awards and 2026 NYC Big Book Award. White Tiger Pass
received the 2026 International Impact Book Awards. He has been nominated three
times for the Mao Dun Literature Prize and has won the Dunhuang Literature and
Art Award six consecutive times.
The e-book
editions of Desert Rites, Desert Hunters, White Tiger Pass,
Love Letters from the Goddess, Eternal Love and Reclaim the Throne of
Your Heart have repeatedly ranked No. 1 on Amazon's bestseller lists.