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| Acknowledgments | |
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| List of Abbreviations | |
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| Technical Note | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Madhyamakalamkara | |
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| Santaraksita | |
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| Santaraksita's Writings | |
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| A Survey of the Literature | |
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| The Scope of the Study | |
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| Sources | |
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| Santaraksita's Yogacara-Madhyamaka Synthesis | |
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| Shifting Provisionalities in Madhyamakalamkara | |
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| Analysis of Texts and Arguments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Text Title, Homage, and Introduction | |
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| The Neither-One-Nor-Many Argument: Demonstrating That Entities Have No Ultimate Inherent Nature | |
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| The Application of the Neither-One-Nor-Many Argument | |
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| Analysis of Objects | |
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| The Refutation of Unitary Objects Asserted by Non-Buddhists | |
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| The Refutation of Unitary Objects Asserted by Buddhist Schools | |
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| The Refutation of Unitary Persons | |
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| The Refutation of Unitary Pervasive Entities | |
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| The Refutation of Gross, Unitary Entities | |
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| The Refutation of Unitary, Partless Particles | |
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| Analysis of Subjects | |
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| Analysis of Mind, Us Objects, and Its Means of Perception As Asserted in Other Buddhist Systems | |
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| Self-Cognizing Cognition (svasamvedana, rang rig), External Objects, and Images | |
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| Critique of an Epistemology Asserting Valid Cognition of True Images (satyakara) External to Consciousness | |
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| Analysis of Mind, Its Objects, and Its Means of Perception As Asserted in Non-Buddhist Systems | |
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| Critiques of Views Maintaining Unitary Consciousness | |
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| Analysis of Mind, Its Objects, and Its Means of Perception As Asserted in Other Buddhist Systems (Cont.) | |
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| Further Critiques of Views Maintaining a Unitary Consciousness | |
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| Critiquing the Yogacara Views | |
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| Yogacara Proponents of True Images | |
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| Yogacara Proponents of False Images | |
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| Wrapping Up the Neither-One-Nor-Many Argument: Demonstrating That Phenomena Lack a Manifold Nature | |
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| Establishing the Pervasion: Entities Have No Nature At All | |
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| Examination of Conventional Truths | |
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| Refutation of Dissenting Arguments | |
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| Yogacara-Madhyamaka Synthesis | |
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| An Analysis of the Geluk Interpretation, Representation, and Criticism of the Yogacara-Svatantrika-Madhyamaka and the Madhayamaka Thought of Santaraksita | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Geluk Hermeneutics and Santaraksita | |
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| Path System Discrepancies: The Status of Hinayana Arhats | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Geluk Presentation and Critique of Santaraksita's Positions | |
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| Critical Analysis of the Geluk Presentation: What Santaraksita Has to Say | |
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| Autonomous Inferences (Svantantranumana) | |
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| The Geluk Critique | |
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| Santaraksita's Arguments on the Use of Autonomous Inferences | |
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| The Two Truths | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Geluk Presentation of the Two Truths According to the Yogacara-Svatantrika-Madhyamaka System | |
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| Santaraksita's View | |
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| Self-Cognizing Cognition | |
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| Concluding Remarks | |
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| Translations | |
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| The Ornament of the Middle Way | |
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| Remembering "The Ornament of the Middle Way" | |
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| Appendices | |
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| Outline of Topics in Madhyamakalamkara Based on Divisions Cited in Gyel-tsab's Commentary | |
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| dbU ma rgyan (Tibetan Text) | |
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| dbU ma rgyan gyi brjed byang (Tibetan Text) | |
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| Notes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |