Contents: Gone Beyond, Volume One: The Prajnaparamita, The Ornament of Clear Realization, and Its Commentaries in the Tibetan Kagyu Tradition
	An Aspiration by H.H. the Seventeenth Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje	13
	Foreword by H.H. the Seventeenth Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje	15
	Foreword by Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche	17
	Acknowledgments	19
	INTRODUCTION	21
	The prajnaparamita sutras	23
	The Abhisamayalamkara and its commentaries	47
	What is the view of the Abhisamayalamkara?	81
	The Abhisamayalamkara in its traditional setting	93
	The place of the prajnaparamita sutras and the Abhisamayalamkara in modern scholarship	107
	Is there any practical relevance to the Abhisamayalamkara?	111
	The Abhisamayalamkara as a contemplative manual	119
	Some remarks on the distinct exergetical approaches of the commentaries by the Eighth Karmapa and the Fifth Shamarpa	129
	Overview of the present three-volume study of commentaries on the AA	201
	TRANSLATION: A CONCISE ELUCIDATION OF THE ABHISAMAYALAMKARA (TOPICS ONE TO THREE)	205
	Paying homage, which is the cause for other persons giving rise to openness for the fruitional mother	207
	The purpose and the connection, which are the causes for others giving rise to openness for this treatise	222
	The eight topics as what is to be explained	225
	The knowledge of all aspects (what is to be attained)	235
	The generation of bodhicitta (the motivation)	235
	The instructions that teach the means of practice	241
	The explanation of the branches of penetration (the result of practicing the instructions)	264
	The disposition as the foundation for the arising of practice	283
	The focal object of practice	292
	The aim of practice	296
	The armorlike practice in six sets of six	298
	The practice of ninefold engagement	301
	The practice of the seventeen equipments	309
	The practice of final deliverance	328
	The knowledge of the path (the means to attain the knowledge of all aspects)	331
	The causes of the knowledge of the path	331
	The manner of the knowledge of the path of sravakas	333
	The manner of the knowledge of the path of pratyekabuddhas	336
	The manner of the knowledge of the path of bodhisattvas	341
	The path of seeing	341
	The path of familiarization	345
	The function of the path of familiarization	345
	The path of familiarization as aspiration,m which accumulates virtue	347
	Its benefit	348
	The path of familiarization as dedication, which makes virtue not going to waste	349
	The path of familiarization as rejoicing, which makes virtue increase	351
	The nature of the uninterrupted path - the path of familiarization as accomplishment	351
	The nature of the path of liberation - the pure path of familiarization	352
	The knowledge of entities (the root of the knowledge of all aspects, which includes the points to go astray)	357
	The nature of the knowledge of entities	362
	The reason for being close or distant	362
	The divisions of antagonistic factors and remedies	363
	The training (the engagement)	366
	The path of seeing (the fruition of engagement)	368
	APPENDIX I. SELECTED GENERAL TOPICS FROM JG AND JNS	371
	1) The knowledge of all aspects	371
	A) Bodhicitta	371
	B) The instructions	397
	C) The two realities	406
	D) The path of preparation	417
	E) The disposition	428
	F) The focal object of practice	488
	G) The equipment of wisdom	492
	H) The equipment of the ten bhumis	514
	2) The knowledge of the path	548
	A) The five causes of the knowledge of the path	548
	B) The knowledge of the path of sravakas	559
	C) The knowledge of the path of pratyekabuddhas	566
	D) The knowledge of the path of bodhisattvas	570
	E) The path of familiarization	591
	3) The all-knowledge	615
	A) The presentation of the objects of knowledge (skandhas, dhatus, and ayatanas)	615
	B) Sravakas and pratyekabuddhas do not realize phenomenal identitylessness	625
	C) The three natures	628
	APPENDIX II: CHARTS	633
	NOTES	679
	INDEX	923