| Acknowledgments | p. 11 |
| Foreword | p. 13 |
| Preface | p. 17 |
| Introduction | p. 25 |
| The General Presentation of Madhyamaka in the Kagyu Tradition | p. 45 |
| The Transmission of Madhyamaka from India to Tibet and Its Relation to Vajrayana and Mahamudra | p. 47 |
| The Middle from Beginning to End | p. 69 |
| Madhyamaka Ground | p. 72 |
| What Is Reality? | p. 72 |
| No Ground for the Two Realities | p. 77 |
| The Detailed Explanation of the Two Realities | p. 80 |
| The Meaning of the Terms | p. 80 |
| Painting the Sky: A Description of Their Defining Characteristics | p. 82 |
| Are the Two Realities One or Different? | p. 88 |
| Seeming Divisions of the Seeming | p. 94 |
| Dividing Space: Divisions of the Ultimate | p. 99 |
| A Critical Analysis of Some Other Tibetan Views on the Two Realities in Centrism | p. 101 |
| The Definite Number of Two Realities and the Purpose of Understanding Them | p. 105 |
| The Emptiness of Emptiness | p. 110 |
| Freedom Is the Nature of Not Having a Nature | p. 110 |
| Elaborations on Simplicity | p. 114 |
| The Twenty Emptinesses | p. 117 |
| The Sixteen Emptinesses | p. 122 |
| The Two Types of Identitylessness | p. 126 |
| Lost Identity | p. 126 |
| Phenomenal Identitylessness | p. 135 |
| Personal Identitylessness | p. 137 |
| Are the Two Identitylessnesses One or Different? | p. 141 |
| The Purpose of Teaching Two Identitylessnesses | p. 141 |
| From Knowledge to Wisdom | p. 142 |
| Madhyamaka Path | p. 153 |
| How Can Madhyamaka Be a Personal Practice? | p. 157 |
| Reasoning and Debate in Centrism | p. 172 |
| Three Stages of Analysis by Nagarjuna and Aryadeva | p. 172 |
| Is Reasoning Reasonable? | p. 174 |
| Reasons and Negations | p. 177 |
| What Is the Object of Negation in Centrist Reasonings? | p. 193 |
| The Status of Valid Cognition in Centrism | p. 199 |
| Do Centrists Have a Thesis or Position? | p. 218 |
| Illusory Lions Killing Illusory Elephants: Empty Reasonings for Liberation | p. 231 |
| Some Essential Points of Centrist Reasoning | p. 231 |
| Disillusionment with Phenomenal Identity | p. 235 |
| The Five Great Madhyamaka Reasonings | p. 235 |
| Other Reasonings | p. 262 |
| Unmasking Personal Identity | p. 264 |
| The Result of Centrist Reasoned Analysis | p. 271 |
| Madhyamaka Meditation | p. 273 |
| Why Is Analytical Meditation Necessary? | p. 273 |
| Calm Abiding and Superior Insight | p. 276 |
| Analytical Meditation and Resting Meditation | p. 279 |
| Working with the Mind in Meditation and Daily Life | p. 285 |
| How to Practice a Session of Analytical Meditation | p. 290 |
| The Progressive Stages of Meditation on Emptiness | p. 295 |
| Mental Nonengagement in Meditation | p. 310 |
| Madhyamaka Conduct | p. 321 |
| Madhyamaka Fruition | p. 323 |
| The Distinction between Autonomists and Consequentialists | p. 333 |
| Classifications of Centrism in India and Tibet | p. 333 |
| Refutation of Mistaken Assumptions about Autonomists and Consequentialists | p. 341 |
| The Actual Distinction between Autonomists and Consequentialists | p. 360 |
| How the Distinction between Autonomists and Consequentialists by Later Tibetans Is a Novelty | p. 373 |
| The Origin of the Controversy between Autonomists and Consequentialists | p. 392 |
| Do Hearers and Solitary Realizers Realize Emptiness? | p. 421 |
| Conclusion | p. 438 |
| Is There Such a Thing as Shentong-Madhyamaka? | p. 445 |
| The Yogacara System in General | p. 457 |
| The System of the Lineage of Vast Activity | p. 460 |
| The Treatment of Yogacara and the Rangtong-Shentong Controversy in Tibet | p. 500 |
| The Single Final Intention of the Two Philosophical Systems of the Great Vehicle | p. 515 |
| The Distinction between Expedient and Definitive Meaning | p. 527 |
| An Outline of Some Major Differences between Mikyo Dorje's and Tsongkhapa's Interpretations of Centrism | p. 553 |
| The Bodhicaryavatara and Pawo Tsugla Trengwa | p. 599 |
| Some Remarks on the Bodhicaryavatara and Pawo Rinpoche's Commentary | p. 601 |
| The Ninth Chapter of Pawo Rinpoche's Commentary on The Entrance to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life | p. 617 |
| A Short Biography of the Second Pawo Rinpoche Tsugla Trengwa | p. 791 |
| Non-Buddhist Indian Schools | p. 794 |
| Tibetan Text of the Ninth Chapter of the Bodhicaryavatara | p. 800 |
| Glossary: English-Sanskrit-Tibetan | p. 816 |
| Glossary: Tibetan-Sanskrit-English | p. 823 |
| Bibliography | p. 831 |
| Endnotes | p. 853 |
| Index | p. 963 |
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