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• Foreword by Tom Tillemans ix
• Preface xiii
• Abbreviations xix
  • 1. Mathematical and Linguistic Models in Indian Thought: The Case of Zero
        and Śūnyatā (1978) 1
  • 2. Towards a Chronology of the Madhyamaka School (1982) 13
  • 3. The Uses of the Four Positions of the Catuṣkoṭi and the Problem of the
        Description of Reality in Mahāyāna Buddhism (1977) 37
    • I. The Four Positions in Early Buddhist Thought37
    • II. The Uses of the Catuṣkoṭi in the Madhyamaka40
    • III. Conjunction and Negation of Opposed Terms in Vijñānavāda
          Definitions of Reality 67
    • IV. Negation of Opposed Terms in the Description of the Absolute in the
          Ratnagotravibhāga 81
    • V. The Vātsīputrīya Conception of the Indeterminate 84
    • Appendix I. Commentarial Interpretations of Mūlamadhyamakakārikā
         xviii.8 86
    • Appendix II. Some Modern Interpretations of the Catuṣkoṭi 89
    • Appendix III. The Logical Error of Negation of the Antecedent and the
         Mūlamadhyamakakārikās 109
    • Bibliography 111
  • 4. Le Dharmadhātustava de Nāgārjuna (1971) 113
  • 5. On the Authorship of Some Works Ascribed to Bhā(va)viveka/Bhavya
        (1990) 145
  • 6. The Svātantrika-Prāsaṅgika Distinction in the History of Madhyamaka
        Though (2006) 159
  • 7. Purport, Implicature, and Presupposition: Sanskrit abhiprāya and Tibetan
        dgongs pa / dgongs gzhi as Hermeneutical Concepts (1985) 195
  • 8. An Indian Source for the Tibetan Hermeneutical Term dgongs gzhi,
        "Intentional Ground" (1998) 213
  • 9. Some Reflections on the Place of Philosophy in the Study of Buddhism
        (1995) 217
  • 10. On the Tibetan Historiography and Doxography of the "Great Debate
         of Bsam yas" (1992) 253
  • 11. Autour du Lta ba'i khyad par de Ye shes sde (1979) 267
  • 12. The Jo nang pas; A School of Buddhist Ontologists According to the
         Crystal Mirror of Philosophical Doctrines (Grub mtha' shel gyi me long) (1963) 289
  • 13. A Karma Bka' brgyud Work on the Lineages and Traditions of the Indo-
         Tibetan dbu ma (Madhyamaka) (1988) 323
  • 14. La Pensée Tibétaine (accompagné d'une traduction du Rten 'brel bstod pa
         legs bshad snying po de Tsong kha pa) (1989) 357
  • 15. The Indian and the Indic in Tibetan Cultural History, and Tsong kha pa's
         Achievement as a Scholar and Thinker: An Essay on the Concepts of
         "Buddhism in Tibet" and "Tibetan Buddhism" (2004) 375
• English Glossary of Selected Terms 399
• Publications by David Seyfort Ruegg 407
• Indexes 419

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śūnyatā - The state of being empty of an innate nature due to a lack of independently existing characteristics. Skt. शून्यता Tib. སྟོང་པ་ཉིད་ Ch. 空,空門

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Madhyamaka - Along with Yogācāra, it is one of the two major philosophical schools of Mahāyāna Buddhism. Founded by Nāgārjuna around the second century CE, it is rooted in the Prajñāpāramitā Sūtras, though its initial exposition was presented in Nāgārjuna's Mūlamadhyamakakārikā. Skt. मध्यमक Tib. དབུ་མ་ Ch. 中觀見

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Mahāyāna - Mahāyāna, or the Great Vehicle, refers to the system of Buddhist thought and practice which developed around the beginning of the Common Era, focusing on the pursuit of the state of full enlightenment of the Buddha through the realization of the wisdom of emptiness and the cultivation of compassion. Skt. महायान Tib. ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོ། Ch. 大乘

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These are the root verses of the Uttaratantra attributed to Maitreya by the Tibetan tradition.

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gzhi - The foundational basis of both saṃsāra and nirvāṇa. It is often used as a synonym for tathāgatagarbha and dharmadhātu. Skt. भूमि Tib. གཞི་

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Yogācāra - Along with Madhyamaka, it was one of the two major philosophical schools of Mahāyāna Buddhism. Founded by Asaṅga and Vasubandhu around the fourth century CE, many of its central tenets have roots in the Saṃdhinirmocanasūtra and the so-called third turning of the dharma wheel (see tridharmacakrapravartana). Skt. योगाचार Tib. རྣལ་འབྱོར་སྤྱོད་པ་ Ch. 瑜伽行派

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gzhan stong - The state of being devoid of that which is wholly different rather than being void of its own nature. The term is generally used to refer to the ultimate, or buddha-nature, being empty of other phenomena such as adventitious defiling emotions but not empty of its true nature. Tib. གཞན་སྟོང་

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rang stong - The state of being empty of self, which references the lack of inherent existence in relative phenomena. Tib. རང་སྟོང་

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tathāgatagarbha - Buddha-nature, literally the "womb/essence of those who have gone (to suchness)." Skt. तथागतगर्भ Tib. དེ་བཞིན་གཤེགས་པའི་སྙིང་པོ་ Ch. 如来藏

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prabhāsvaratā - In a general sense, that which clears away darkness, though it often appears in Buddhist literature in reference to the mind or its nature. It is a particularly salient feature of Tantric literature, especially in regard to the advanced meditation techniques of the completion-stage yogas. Skt. प्रभास्वरता Tib. འོད་གསལ་ Ch. 光明

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gotra - Disposition, lineage, or class; an individual's gotra determines the type of enlightenment one is destined to attain. Skt. गोत्र Tib. རིགས་ Ch. 鍾姓,種性

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