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Acknowledgments; Introduction; General Remarks; Textual Historical Background; Part I: Early Period: Kadam Thinkers Rescue the Treatise; Chapter 1 Rise of the Uttaratantra in Tibet: Early Kadam Scholars Revitalize the Newly Discovered Indian Exegesis; Introduction; Ngok and Chapa on the Pervasive Nature of the Buddha-Body; Ngok and Chapa on Definitive or Provisional Nature in the Uttaratantra; Ngok and Chapa on the Uttaratantra as a Last-Wheel Treatise; Buddha-Element as a Conceived Object; Ngok and Chapa Differ on Emphasis; Conclusion
Chapter 2 Sowing Seeds for Future Debate: Dissenters and AdherentsIntroduction; Sapen, the Dissenter; Rikrel, the Third Karmapa, and Sangpu Lodrö Defend the Uttaratantra; Rinchen Yeshé's Proto Other-Emptiness Presentation of the Uttaratantra and Butön's Reply; Conclusion; Part II: The Pinnacle Period: The Other-Emptiness Interpretation Spreads; Chapter 3 Other-Emptiness Tradition: The Uttaratantra in Dölpopa's Works; Introduction; Predominance of the Last-Wheel Scriptures; Is the Uttaratantra a Cittamātra Text or a Madhyamaka Text?; Classification of Cittamātra; Classification of Madhyamaka
ConclusionChapter 4 The Uttaratantra in Fourteenth-Century Tibet; Introduction; Sazang Follows in His Master's Footsteps; Two Fourteenth-Century Kadam Masters' Uttaratantra Commentaries; Longchenpa's View on the Uttaratantra; Conclusion; Part III: The Argumentation Period: Self-Emptiness Proponents Criticize Other-Emptiness Approach; Chapter 5 Challenges to the Purely Definitive Nature of the Uttaratantra: Zhalu Thinkers Criticize Dölpopa; Introduction; Butön's Ornament; Dratsépa's Commentary; Conclusion
Chapter 6 Challenges to the Supremacy of the Uttaratantra: Rendawa and Tsongkhapa on Tathāgata-Essence LiteratureIntroduction; Rendawa on the Uttaratantra and the Tathāgata-Essence Literature; Tsongkhapa on the Uttaratantra and the Tathāgata-Essence Literature; Conclusion; Chapter 7 Gyeltsap's Commentary on the Uttaratantra: A Critique of Dölpopa's Interpretation of Tathāgata-Essence Literature; Introduction; Middle-Wheel and Last-Wheel Teachings; Definitive Meaning and Provisional Meaning; Self-Emptiness and Other-Emptiness; Conclusion; Conclusion; General Remarks; Completing the Cycle
Chapter 2 Sowing Seeds for Future Debate: Dissenters and AdherentsIntroduction; Sapen, the Dissenter; Rikrel, the Third Karmapa, and Sangpu Lodrö Defend the Uttaratantra; Rinchen Yeshé's Proto Other-Emptiness Presentation of the Uttaratantra and Butön's Reply; Conclusion; Part II: The Pinnacle Period: The Other-Emptiness Interpretation Spreads; Chapter 3 Other-Emptiness Tradition: The Uttaratantra in Dölpopa's Works; Introduction; Predominance of the Last-Wheel Scriptures; Is the Uttaratantra a Cittamātra Text or a Madhyamaka Text?; Classification of Cittamātra; Classification of Madhyamaka
ConclusionChapter 4 The Uttaratantra in Fourteenth-Century Tibet; Introduction; Sazang Follows in His Master's Footsteps; Two Fourteenth-Century Kadam Masters' Uttaratantra Commentaries; Longchenpa's View on the Uttaratantra; Conclusion; Part III: The Argumentation Period: Self-Emptiness Proponents Criticize Other-Emptiness Approach; Chapter 5 Challenges to the Purely Definitive Nature of the Uttaratantra: Zhalu Thinkers Criticize Dölpopa; Introduction; Butön's Ornament; Dratsépa's Commentary; Conclusion
Chapter 6 Challenges to the Supremacy of the Uttaratantra: Rendawa and Tsongkhapa on Tathāgata-Essence LiteratureIntroduction; Rendawa on the Uttaratantra and the Tathāgata-Essence Literature; Tsongkhapa on the Uttaratantra and the Tathāgata-Essence Literature; Conclusion; Chapter 7 Gyeltsap's Commentary on the Uttaratantra: A Critique of Dölpopa's Interpretation of Tathāgata-Essence Literature; Introduction; Middle-Wheel and Last-Wheel Teachings; Definitive Meaning and Provisional Meaning; Self-Emptiness and Other-Emptiness; Conclusion; Conclusion; General Remarks; Completing the Cycle