<DIV>Tsongkhapa (1357?1419), the author of The Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment and the teacher of the First Dalai Lama, is renowned as one of the greatest scholar-saints that Tibet has ever produced. He composed his poetic Praise for Dependent Relativity the very morning that he abandoned confusion and attained the final view, the clear realization of emptiness that is the essence of wisdom. English monk Graham Woodhouse, a longtime student of Buddhism who lives near the Dalai Lama's residence in northern India, translates Tsongkhapa's celebrated text and conveys for modern readers the teachings he received from his teacher, the late Venerable Losang Gyatso.<BR></DIV>