In the Ge-luk-pa tradition of Tibetan Buddhism, training in analytical reasoning is considered essential not only for the academic path, but because it enhances the pursuit of meditation. The Ge-luk-pa system of logic (the "path of reasoning") produces a mind that is trained, powerful, flexible, and able to approach an idea from numerous points of view. When it is applied in meditation on emptiness, it is an essential tool for self-transformation. Tibetan Logic is based on an introductory logic manual by Pur-bu-jok Jam-ba-gya-tso (1825-1901) widely used in Ge-luk-pa monastic universities. Rogers takes up each of the manual's topics in turn, providing explanation and commentary, and investigates the role of reasoning in the Ge-luk-pa system of education, highlighting conflicting points of view in different oral traditions as they arise. A complete translation of Pur-bu-jok's text, a glossary of technical terms, and a detailed table of contents are included.

Tibetan Logic, Katherine Manchester Rogers, Snow Lion Publications, Paperback, 2009, 515 Pages, $39.95

Katherine Manchester Rogers received her Ph.D. in Buddhist Studies from the Universty of Virginia. She is translator and editor of Garland of Mahamudra Pratices.

	Contents: Tibetan Logic
	Part One: Essentials of Reasoning	11
	Introduction	13
1.	The Property of the Subject	33
2.	Bases of Relation of the Pervasions: The Similar and Dissimilar Classes	79
3.	Establishing the Forward Pervasion and the Counterpervasion	109
4.	The Main Division of Correct Signs	149
5.	Correct Nature Signs	183
6.	Correct Nonobservation Signs of the Nonappearing	197
7.	Correct Nonobservation Signs of the Suitable to Appear	227
8.	Other Divisions of Correct Signs	275
9.	Quasi-Reasons	327
10.	The Text and Its Study	359
	Part Two: Annotated Translation; Pur-bu-jok Jam-pa-gya-tso's The Topic of Signs and Reasonings from the "Great Path of Reasoning"	381
1.	Signs	383
2.	Bases of Relation of Correct Signs	385
3.	Correct Sign	399
4.	Effect Signs	407
5.	Nature Signs	413
6.	Nonobservation Signs	417
7.	Other Divisions of Correct Signs	441
8.	Contradictory Reasons	453
9.	Indefinite Reasons	457
10.	Nonestablished Reasons	465
11.	Important Subsidiary Topics	469
	Glossary	479
	Detailed Outline	487
	List of Abbreviations	499
	Bibliography	501
	Endnotes	505
	Index	517