The Abhisamayalamkara summarizes all the topics in the vast body of prajnaparamita sutras. Resembling a zip-file, it only comes to life through its Indian and Tibetan commentaries. Together, these texts not only discuss the "hidden meaning" of the prajnaparamita sutras, the paths and bhumis of sravakas, pratyckabuddhas, and bodhisattvas, but also serve as contemplative manuals for the explicit topic of these sutras, emptiness, and how it is to be understood on the progressive levels of realization of bodhisattvas. Thus, these texts describe what happens in the mind of a bodhisattvas who meditates on emptiness, making it a living experience from the beginner's stage up through Buddhahood.<BR><BR>Gone Beyond contains the first in-depth study of the Abhisamayalamkara (the text studied most extensively in higher Tibetan Buddhist education) and its commentaries in the Kagyn School. This study includes translations of Maitrekya's famous text and its commentary by the Fifth Shamarpa, G÷ncho Yenla (the first translation ever of a complete commentary on the Abhisamayalamkara into English), which are supplemented by extensive excerpts from the commentaries by the Third, Seventh, and Eighth Karmapas and others. Thus, it closes a long-standing gap in the modern scholarship on the Prajnaparamita sutras and the literature on paths and bhumis in mahayana Buddhism. This first volume presents an English translation of the first three chapters of the Abhisamayalamkara and its commentary by the Fifth Shamarpa.