Table of Contents
Translators' Preface xv
The Root Stanzas of the Middle Way 1
Homage 2
1 An Examination of Conditions 3
2 An Examination of Motion 7
3 An Examination of the Sense Powers 13
4 An Examination of the Aggregates 15
5 An Examination of the Elements 17
6 An Examination of Desire and the Desirous 19
7 An Examination of Arising, Abiding, and Decay 21
8 An Examination of Agent and Action 27
9 An Examination of the Foregoing Entity 31
10 An Examination of Fire and Fuel 35
11 An Examination of Earlier and Later Limits 39
12 An Examination of Self-Production and Other-Production 41
13 An Examination of Compounded Things 43
14 An Examination of Contact 45
15 An Examination of Intrinsic Being 47
16 An Examination of Bondage and Release from Bondage 51
17 An Examination of Action 53
18 An Examination of the Self and Phenomena 59
19 An Examination of Time 63
20 An Examination of the Confluence of Causes and Conditions 65
21 An Examination of Arising and Destruction 71
22 An Examination of the Tathagata 75
23 An Examination of Mistakes 79
24 An Examination of the Truths of the Aryas 85
25 An Examination of Nirvana 93
26 An Examination of the Twelve Links of Existence 99
27 An Examination of Views 103
Concluding Homage 109
Colophon 111
The Tibetan Text 113
Notes 171
Bibliography 175