Note on Conventions                                9  
Preface                                            15 
Acknowledgments                                    25 
Part One:  Introduction to the Unique Tenets       31
and 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                                   275
Part Two:  Jamyang Shayba's "Unique Tenets of      285
the Prasangika-Madhyamika School" with the
Annotations of Ngawang Belden
Translator's Introduction                          285
Jamyang 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                   419
Part Three:  Janggya's "Unique Tenets of the       427
Prasangika-Madhyamika School"
Translator's Introduction                          427
Janggya'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                   493
Jamyang Shayba Text                                497
Ngawang Belden Text                                505
Janggya Text                                       519
English-Sanskrit-Tibetan Glossary                  543
Tibetan-English-Sanskrit Glossary                  555
Sanskrit-Tibetan-English Glossary                  565
Bibliography                                       575
Index                                              617