Note on Conventions 9 Preface 15 Acknowledgments 25 Part One: Introduction to the Unique Tenets 31and Analysis of Selected Topics 1. The Unique Tenets 31 The Prasangika "School" 33 Why the Unique Tenets are "Unique": 41 Conventional and Ultimate Analysis Enumeration of the Unique Tenets 58 Sources for the Unique Tenets 63 2. The Prasangika Critique of Mind-Only 73 Idealism The Cittamatra "School" 76 Indian Sources for the Mind-Only Controversy 94 Cittamatra and Prasangika Perspectives on 101 Mind-Only Scriptures 3. Gelukba Renditions of the Mind-Only 107 Controversy Cittamatra Arguments That the Assertion of 109 External Objects Contradicts Meditative Experiences Cittamatra and Prasangika on "Partless 123 Particles" Arguments Concerning the Necessity of 128 External Objects for the Production of Consciousness Other Prasangika Criticisms of Mind-Only 143 4. Refutation of Self-Consciousness 153 Sources for the Debate on Self-Consciousness 157 Refutation of the Necessity of 160 Self-Consciousness for Later Memory of Consciousness The Argument That Mind Is Self-conscious 170 but Is Not a Self-consciousness The Objection That Positing 173 Self-Consciousness Would Require Ultimate Analysis 5. Disintegration and the Three Times 181 Why Non-Prasangikas Do Not Consider 190 Disintegratedness to Be a Functioning Thing Scriptural Proofs That Disintegratedness Is 193 a Functioning Thing Logical Proofs That Disintegratedness Is a 197 Functioning Thing Candrakirti's First Argument 200 Candrakirti's Second Argument 204 Candrakirti's Third Argument 206 Candrakirti's Fourth Argument 207 Dzongkaba's Argument 209 Jamyang Shayba on Ultimate Analysis 211 Ngawang Belden's Objections to Jamyang 215 Shayba The Three Times 220 6. Other Unique Tenets 231 Refutation of a Mind-Basis-of-All 235 Valid Cognition Is Mistaken but Reliable 237 Refutation of Autonomous Syllogisms 239 Prasangika Perspective on the Destruction 243 of the Obstructions to Omniscience Pramana Is Not Necessarily New Cognition 248 Mental Direct Perception Can be Conceptual 251 Prasangika Perspectives on Nirvana 253 The Two Selflessnesses of Persons and 258 Phenomena Are Equally Subtle Desire and Aversion Conceive True Existence 259 Common Beings Can Have Yogic Direct 262 Perception One Can Directly Realize the Sixteen 265 Aspects of the Four Noble Truths Even before the Path of Preparation True Cessations Are the Dharmadhatu 266 Pratyaksa Refers to Objects 269 How Prasangikas Avoid the Two Extremes 271 7. Conclusion 275Part Two: Jamyang Shayba's "Unique Tenets of 285the Prasangika-Madhyamika School" with theAnnotations of Ngawang BeldenTranslator's Introduction 285Jamyang Shayba's Introduction 289 1. External Objects Exist but a 299 Mind-Basis-of-All Does Not 2. The Two Selflessnesses 315 3. Prime Cognition and Conventional Valid 323 Cognition 4. Mental and Yogic Direct Perception 331 5. The Sixteen Attributes of the Four Noble 341 Truths and the Three Times 6. Disintegratedness Is a Thing and Effects 349 Are Feasible 7. The Non-Assertion of Autonomous 369 Syllogisms and Self-Consciousness 8. Pratyaksa and True Cessations 391 9. Nirvanas with Remainder and without 397 Remainder 10. The Two Obstructions 411 11. Avoiding the Two Extremes 419Part Three: Janggya's "Unique Tenets of the 427Prasangika-Madhyamika School"Translator's Introduction 427Janggya's Introduction 429 A: Explanation of the Eight Chief 435 Distinguishing Features of Prasangika-Madhyamika 1. The Unique Way of Refuting a 435 Mind-Basis-of-All 2. The Unique Way of Refuting 439 Self-Consciousness 3. The Non-Assertion of Autonomous Reasons 449 4. The Unique Way of Asserting External 455 Objects 5. The Proof That Hearers and Solitary 459 Realizers Realize the Selflessness of Phenomena 6. The Unique Way of Positing the 463 Conception of a Self of Phenomena as an Affliction 7. The Unique Way of Asserting That 471 Disintegratedness Is a Functioning Thing 8. The Unique Presentation of the Three 475 Times B: The System of Refuting Inherent Existence 479 C: The Way of Distinguishing Definitive 485 Sutras and Those Requiring Interpretation in Dependence on [Unique Tenets and the Refutation of Inherent Existence]Emendations of the Tibetan Texts 493Jamyang Shayba Text 497Ngawang Belden Text 505Janggya Text 519English-Sanskrit-Tibetan Glossary 543Tibetan-English-Sanskrit Glossary 555Sanskrit-Tibetan-English Glossary 565Bibliography 575Index 617
